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The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.


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The Language Instinct has been criticized by Geoffrey Sampson in his book The 'Language Instinct' Debate.

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18 1954) is a Canadian-born experimental psychologist cognitive scientist linguist and popular science author. In his popular books he has argued that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection.

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