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Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, University of Oxford

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July 23, 2018

Why would you do this?→

July 23, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

- BBC
July 23, 2018

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2018, popular-press
July 23, 2018

What is a ritual?→

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July 23, 2018

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May 17, 2018

Do Universal Moral Intuitions Shape and Constrain Culturally Prevalent Moral Norms?→

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2018, blog-post
October 19, 2016

Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution: An Anthropologist’s View→

October 19, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Evolution Forum
October 19, 2016

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March 21, 2016

What Motivates Extreme Self-Sacrifice?→

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- Pacific Standard
March 21, 2016

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October 19, 2015

The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll [with Pieter François and Peter Turchin]→

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- Social Evolution Forum
October 19, 2015

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November 12, 2014

Libyan Bands of Brothers Show How Deeply Humans Bond in Adversity→

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November 12, 2014

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March 12, 2013

Three Wishes for the World→

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January 01, 2013

To Understand Present Day Cultures We Must Study the Past: a Commentary on David Sloan Wilson [with Michael E. Hochberg]→

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December 12, 2012

Human Rites→

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December 12, 2012

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Solving global problems requires global cohesion

Whitehouse, H., et al. (2025) New England Journal of Public Policy.

Against interpretive exclusivism

Whitehouse, H. (2024). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Anthropology in action in Vanuatu: Troubleshooting disaster relief in the wake of tropical cyclones Judy and Kevin

Whitehouse, H. & Tanguay, J. (2024). Anthropology in Action.

Rethinking ritual: How rituals made our world and how they could save it

Whitehouse, H. (2023) Journal of the Royal Anthrological Institute.

Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice

Whitehouse, H. (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

Whitehouse, H., et al. (2017). Nature: Scientific Reports 7.

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Harvey appeared in episode 4, "Creation," of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, Sunday, 24 April on National Geographic Channel UK.

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