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Professor Harvey Whitehouse is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion. One of the world's leading experts on the evolutionary basis of human culture, Whitehouse's work has featured in the Telegraph, Guardian, Scientific American and New Scientist, and he has delivered talks at the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. He lives in Oxford.
A bold and sweeping analysis that ranges widely through time, across geographies and through different kinds of human societies. A book of rare ambition and scope. -- PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads A compelling, thoughtful, nuanced and ultimately hopeful new perspective on our history, present crises and future potential . . . A masterpiece – important, thought-provoking and great fun to read. -- KATE FOX, author of Watching the English This fascinating book combines ground-breaking research with compelling storytelling to reveal how humanity’s deepest tendencies towards conforming, believing and belonging have profoundly shaped our many histories and current realities . . . Profoundly thought-provoking. -- KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics Harvey Whitehouse has woven his extensive studies of our inherited human nature into a remarkably readable book that aims to help us respond more effectively to contemporary problems. He offers a powerful argument that the behaviour change we need is more likely to occur if we make use of our evolved human nature, rather than seek to transcend it. -- PETER SINGER, author of Animal Liberation A profoundly important book with a breathtaking scope. Whitehouse shows how evolution sculpted our psychological make-up, how we overcame these biological limitations over the course of world history and how we can wield this knowledge to face the challenges of the future. Full of deep insights into human nature, this is a work of compelling conviction by a master in the field. -- LEWIS DARTNELL, author of BEING HUMAN and ORIGINS A bold and sweeping analysis that ranges widely through time, across geographies and through different kinds of human societies. A book of rare ambition and scope. -- PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads A compelling, thoughtful, nuanced and ultimately hopeful new perspective on our history, present crises and future potential . . . A masterpiece – important, thought-provoking and great fun to read. -- KATE FOX, author of Watching the English This fascinating book combines ground-breaking research with compelling storytelling to reveal how humanity’s deepest tendencies towards conforming, believing and belonging have profoundly shaped our many histories and current realities . . . Profoundly thought-provoking. -- KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics
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