Harvey Whitehouse

Anthropologist

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.

A man with short, light-colored hair and a blue shirt is smiling in front of a bookshelf filled with assorted books.

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.

Thinking

Do you need religion to be a moral person?

Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.