How Steven Pinker's mind works.

From: Quadrant | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, combines the latest findings in linguistics, microbiology, cognitive psychology, paleontology, and anthropology in writings about evolutionary psychology. 'How the Mind Works' elicited many television appearances, personality profiles, and interviews on the popularization of science.

THE YEAR 1997 was a big one for Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a celebrated populariser of science. His most ambitious book so far, How the Mind Works, was published ...

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