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Also Known As Steven Arthur Pinker
Born September 18, 1954 (age 70) • Montreal • Canada
Notable Works “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress” • “How the Mind Works” • “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” • “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” • “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century” • “The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window into Human Nature” • “Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language”
Subjects Of Study linguistics • child

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