Harvey Whitehouse

Harvey Whitehouse

Anthropologist

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Harvey Whitehouse is Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion at the University of Oxford. He is a founding director of Seshat: Global History Databank and the author or editor of nine books, including The Ritual Animal.

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Book cover of "Inheritance" by Harvey Whitehouse. The white cover features a vertical tear revealing a stack of people on one side and a green landscape on the other. Subtext reads "The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World.
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Do you need religion to be a moral person?
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
Harvey Whitehouse
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