The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature in Modern Intellectual Life

ability African Americans American animals argue behavior behavioral genetics believe biologist biology Blank Slate Boston Globe brain called Cambridge cause Chagnon Chapter child cognitive cognitive neuroscience concept conflict connectionism cortex Cosmides crime culture Daly & Wilson doctrine emotions environment ethnic evolution evolutionary psychology evolved example explain fact fear feminism gender genes genetic genome heritability human nature idea identical twins images individual innate intellectual intelligence intuitions John Tooby kind language learning Lewontin living logic male mental mind moral natural selection neural neurons neuroscience Noble Savage organism parents person philosopher Pinker Plomin political punishment rape reason reciprocal altruism scientific scientists sense sexual siblings social Social Darwinism society Sociobiology soul species stereotypes theory things thought tion Tooby traits Trivers understanding University Press violence Vision visual visual cortex women words wrote Yanomamö York