In his last outing, How the Mind Works, the author of the well-received The Language Instinct made a case for evolutionary psychology—or the view that human beings have a hard-wired nature that ...

The Language Myth is written for a general audience—not specifically professional linguists—and takes the form of an evidence-based rebuttal of aspects of the world-view developed in the popular, best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Pinker has sold more than two million books and has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer - Geoff Pugh When Steven Pinker ...

How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkers ...

In my recent book, The Language Myth, I investigate one of the dominant themes that has preoccupied the study of language for the last 50 years or so: whether the rudiments of the human capacity for ...