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“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
“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.” Read more...
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Simon Baron-Cohen, Psychologist
“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
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