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In a cover story in the Weekly Standard , Andrew Ferguson takes the field of evolutionary psychology to task by attacking its standard bearer, How the Mind Works author Steven Pinker.
Check out the "Reading" thread, which focused last week on Steven Pinker's seminal The Language Instinct . To judge from the brouhaha over the early chapters, Pinker's theories are--well--far from popular.
Ferguson, echoing a charge made by Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly, says that Pinker wants us "to see [infanticide] not as a moral horror but as a genetically encoded evolutionary adaptation, as unavoidable as depth perception or opposable thumbs."
Critics find the book entertaining, praising digressions on gambling, laughing, and love, as well as Pinker's pop-culture references.
I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles.