Inheritance : The evolutionary origins of the modern world / Harvey Whitehouse.

Human nature and our unnatural history
A new science of the social
The three
Copycat Culture
Human nature and our unnatural history
A new science of the social
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.