Sociobiology and you.(The Blank Slate)(Book Review)

From: The Nation | Date: November 18, 2002| Author: Johnson, Steven | Copyright information

The Blank Slate. By Steven Pinker. Viking. 509 pp. $27.95.

If Steven Pinker's latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the final demolition of that battle-worn slur, "biological determinism," still lugged out by the occasional critic when someone starts talking about genes, evolution and human behavior in the same paragraph. Ever since E.O. Wilson first published t...

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