by Steven Pinker
The Nature side of the Nature versus Nurture debate. This proves it - Not all women sound as if they are reading for Women's Hour - please take note, historians, when you choose your readers.I used to have quite a crush on teh Pinker once upon a time:
There's a joke in this book that linguists really like. An English woman has just got off the plane at Boston's Logan airport. She takes a cab, and starts questioning the driver about where to obtain various local delicacies."Oh yes," she says in her posh English accent. "Could you tell me where you...
Interesting for its discussion of language and language acquisition. But: too many people take Pinker's word as gospel, when in fact his theories are quite controversial. This book also bears a lot of responsibility for the rise of pop EvPsych. Evolutionary psychology is a field that has a few worth...
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