"My opinions about human nature are shared by……" — Steven Pinker

"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."

— Steven Pinker

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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your…
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You…
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles…
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs…
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do…
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken…
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but…
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to…
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as…
Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of…
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate…

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