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| A History of Violence |
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Once again, Steven Pinker returns to debunking the doctrine of the noble savage in the following piece based on his lecture at the recent TED Conference in Monterey, California.
Pinker's notable talk, along with his essay, is one more example of how ideas from the empirical and biological study of human beings is gaining sway over those that rely on studying social actions and human cultures independent from their biological foundation.
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| STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His most recent book is The Blank Slate. |
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| Education, Environment/Natural Resources, Marriage/Parenting, Sustainability, Women's Issues |
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| violence, conflict, peace, evolution, culture, cultural evolution, conscious evolution |
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