Steven Pinker Quote

In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.


p. 95 - The Blank Slate (2002)

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In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy...

In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy...

In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy...

In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy...