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“This is a popular science book from a highly respected cognitive scientist. He took one part of the mind, language, and looked at it from every angle. It’s a really wonderful example of what you can do: take research into something as fundamental to human nature as language and make it accessible to a wide audience. It was, deservedly, a very popular and successful book. Language is at the core of many of the humanities, yet here was a writer addressing it as a scientist. His book is of interest both to those in the arts and the sciences, given the centrality of language to being human.” Read more...
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Simon Baron-Cohen, Psychologist
“The types of arguments that you’ve got to make in evolutionary psychology, Steven Pinker made them and made them brilliantly. You’ve got to break down people’s intuition that they already know how they do what they do—use language in his case—and they already know what it’s for, and how it works. It’s a wonderful book, both for the way it’s written, for the details, and for offering a background to evolutionary psychology.” Read more...
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Chris Paley, Science Writer
“There are two achievements in this book. One is to smuggle Linguistics 101 into a popular book, which is just fantastic. The other is his own argument about the nature of language, and the title says it all.” Read more...
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Lane Greene, Journalist
