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

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September 24, 2024

The best books about the evolutionary origins of the modern world→

September 24, 2024/ CSSC Administrator

- Shepherd
September 23, 2024

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February 07, 2022

Harvey Whitehouse's "The Ritual Animal"→

February 07, 2022/ CSSC Administrator

- The Page 99 Test
February 1, 2022

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December 02, 2019

Solving the Puzzle of Supercooperators Means Studying Cooperation Cooperatively→

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- The Seshat Newsletter
November 26, 2019

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May 09, 2019

A bad time for (some) theories but a good time for history?→

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- Cliodynamica
May 5, 2019

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October 09, 2018

De-radicalization or De-fusion? →

October 09, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Change Lab
October 8, 2018

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May 17, 2018

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

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- The Evolution Institute
May 17, 2018

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October 21, 2016

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

October 21, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Evolution Forum
October 19, 2016

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December 12, 2015

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

December 12, 2015/ ScienceSites

- Social Evolution Forum
October 19, 2015

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January 02, 2015

Three Wishes for the World→

January 02, 2015/ ScienceSites

- Social Evolution Forum
March 12, 2013

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December 18, 2014

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

December 18, 2014/ ScienceSites

- Social Evolution Forum
October 15, 2012

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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

Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

Harvey Whitehouse 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.

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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