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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 1879557509
ISBN-13: 9781879557505
Jan 2000
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Abridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this accessible analysis, a psychologist merges cognitive science and biology to examine the brain's evolution and the quirks of human nature.
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"His [Pinker] new book is large, wide-ranging, attractively written, and generally well-argued. In some ways it is almost too good..."
New Republic - Colin McGinn (02/23/1998)
"Here, the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT widens his scope, explaining the structure of the mind in much of its emotional, perceptive, sexual, problem-solving splendor."
Korn
"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear."
Jussim
"An authoritative synthesis of cognitive science, which looks at the mind as a system for processing information, and evolutionary psychology, which looks at the mind the as Darwin would. As such, the book marks out the territory on which the coming century's debate about human nature will be held."
Cooper
"An ideal introduction to a new view of human nature, one that is likely to gain in influence over time; it's an important book even for those who don't share Pinker's conclusions."
Hafner
"How the Mind Works is, in many respects, a substantial achievement. Pinker assembles a sizeable set of studies, theories and broader approaches from a number of fields and uses the key claims of evolutionary psychology to link and integrate them."
Smith
"...the fun of Pinker’s book is his attempt to deduce human psychology from the assumption that our minds are adaptations for transmitting our genes."
London Review of Books - Jerry Fodor (01/22/1998)
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