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Inheritance : The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World / Harvey Whitehouse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehouse, Harvey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Social evolution.
- Human behavior--Evolution.
- Human behavior.
- Human behavior--Social aspects.
- Heredity, Human.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases--conformism, religiosity, and tribalism--shaped humanity's past and imperil its future.
- Contents:
- Human nature and our unnatural history
- A new science of the social
- The three
- Copycat Culture
- Human nature and our unnatural history
- The three biases
- The ritual animal
- Ritual is all in the mind
- The origins of overimitation
- The mechanics of conformism
- Wild Religion
- Missionaries, spirits, and ancestors
- Religion in the wild
- The intuitive foundations of wild religion
- Catchy counter-intuitions and their social consequences
- The gods are in charge
- Religion and morality
- Social Glue
- The evolution of self-sacrificial behaviour
- Ritual ordeals and shared suffering
- Shared essence and fusion
- The origins of fusion
- Fighting and dying for the group
- Cranking Up Conformism
- Rituals, routines, and the first big groups
- The birth of routinization
- Routinization and the rise of social complexity
- Farming and future-mindedness
- Religiosity and the Rise of Supernatural Authority
- Why worship the ancestors?
- Divine sanction and worldly authority
- The rise of human sacrifice
- The demise of human sacrifice
- Moralizing religions
- Tribalism and the Evolution of Warfare
- Warfare and the evolution of tribalism
- Two forms of group bonding
- Extended fusion and warfare
- Sacred values and the rise of imperialism
- Conformism and the Climate
- The unnaturalness of capitalism
- The hidden rituals of economic life
- Conformism and capitalism
- Ritual and the rebirth of future-mindedness
- Religiosity on Sale
- Animism and advertising
- Moral bias and the news
- Moral contagion and social media
- Tribalism Today
- Fusion, the media, and violent extremism
- Tribalism in the age of mutually assured destruction
- Returning to the tribe
- Epilogue: Rise of the Teratribe
- Revolutionizing routines
- Rethinking world religion
- The dawning of the teratribe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Whitehouse, Harvey Inheritance
- ISBN:
- 9780674298064
- 9780674298071
- OCLC:
- 1451799530
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