When a new baby arrives in this world, which factor exercises the most control over how he or she will turn out? Is it the inherited gene structure present in the child's brain? Or is it the cultural ...

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker comes out swinging in defense of Darwin with his latest book, The Blank Slate (in paperback this September from Penguin USA). This Harvard-based proponent of ...

In his bestseller, The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker argues that personality traits are inherited. They are the adaptive traits of our ancestors. When we are born, we are therefore not born as blank ...

The show talks with evolutionary psychologist and author Steven Pinker about his new book, "The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window into Human Nature." Pinker is a professor of psychology at ...