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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.
It turned out to cost millions of dollars to clean up the last 10 percent of the waste at a given site—money that could have been spent on ... In the Preface, I called the Blank Slate a sacred doctrine and human nature a modern taboo.
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.
Steven Pinker argues that our usual explanations of human behaviour - stated most clearly in the human sciences of psychology, ethics and politics - tend to deny what is now undeniable: the role of an inherited human nature.
Banishes the fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.
This work argues otherwise.