Steven Pinker Quotes
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. 
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Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
- Steven Pinker
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.
- Steven Pinker