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How Steven Pinker's mind works
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The year 1997 was a big one for Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at MIT and a celebrated popularizer of science. His most ambitious book so far, How the Mind Works, was published to enthusiastic reviews, which is good news for him. And he was accused of advocating infanticide, which is not.
Pinker's pickle, as we may call his current predicament, occurs at the confluence of several recent trends in the life of the American mind, particularly the book-buying public's lusty appe...
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Back to the drawing board on evolution
Evening Standard - London
; GEOFFREY MILLER ALAS, POOR DARWIN: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose (Cape, 18.99) TIRESOME, predictable and badly researched, this 15-essay collection offers no coherent arguments against evolutionary psychology, but reveals instead the collective
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Why evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation or "just so" stories: with examples from human sexuality and from narratives.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
; Contrary to what some of its opponents claim, evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation, or just so stories which are incapable of being tested. Many believe these critiques. In fact, a former colleague of mine, now a journal editor, recently stated them to me in an e-mail. He mentioned
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Nature's Son.
U.S. News & World Report
; Leaning back comfortably on a sofa in a Washington, D.C., hotel, Steven Pinker, acclaimed psychologist and bestselling author, dreams up homicidal fantasies for the squeamish. A boat goes down on the open seas. What a shame, he says cheerily, no life preservers! Then, pulling a frown, the
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Bad behaviour; Evolutionary psychology.(!)(Review)
The Economist (US)
; ALAS, POOR DARWIN: ARGUMENTS AGAINST EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY. ACCORDING to evolutionary psychology, most of our actions, emotions and beliefs-including the sexual attractiveness of Donald Trump, the popularity of cheeseburgers and the crime of rape-are the products of natural selection that acted
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Survival of the theorists Professors battle over Darwin's concept of evolution
The Boston Globe
; CAMBRIDGE --With his rock-star mass of curly locks and his breezy rhetorical style, MIT's Steven Pinker doesn't match the image that "fundamentalist" usually calls to mind. Neither does Tufts' Daniel Dennett, the very picture of a mild-mannered, tweedy academic. But that is what these two
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