The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- ISBN-10
- 0142003344
- ISBN-13
- 9780142003343
- Series
- The Blank Slate
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 509
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Steven Pinker
Description
In a study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures.
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