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June 25, 2025

An Interview with Professor Harvey Whitehouse 2025 Compendium→

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Starling Insights 23 June, 2025

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June 10, 2025

On the Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World. →

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- Thought Economics June 8, 2025

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September 24, 2024

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

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February 07, 2022

Harvey Whitehouse's "The Ritual Animal"→

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- The Page 99 Test
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December 02, 2019

Solving the Puzzle of Supercooperators Means Studying Cooperation Cooperatively→

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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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- Social Change Lab
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Do Universal Moral Intuitions Shape and Constrain Culturally Prevalent Moral Norms?→

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- The Evolution Institute
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October 21, 2016

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

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- 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]→

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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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