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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker föddes den 18 september 1954
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It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances.

Even if he does occasionally hurt people's feelings -- he occasionally hurts my feelings -- but I'm a big boy. I can get over it. I can argue back. We really need somebody to question the way a university is run.

All of us have a theory about human nature.

That isn't really a question that can be answered.

they aren't identical lumps of clay.

no more similar than two people plucked off the street at random.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.

To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies. He made far too many enemies.

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules far
more often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways,
and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Evolutionary psychology is taking that mindset and applying it to more emotionally charged aspects of behavior, such as sexuality, violence, beauty, and family feelings.

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