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Harvey Whitehouse

Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College

Harvey Whitehouse is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the Director of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and a founding director of Seshat, a vast database on human history that enables scholars and scientists to test hypotheses about the rise and fall of human civilizations.

Harvey Whitehouse

Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College

Harvey Whitehouse is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the Director of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and a founding director of Seshat, a vast database on human history that enables scholars and scientists to test hypotheses about the rise and fall of human civilizations. His many books include The Ritual Animal (2021, OUP) and Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World (2024, Penguin Random House).

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