As An Experimental Psychologist, I Have Been

Evolutionary Psychology Is One Of Four Sciences That Are Bringing Human Nature Back Into The Picture.

The Brain Is Not A Bag Of Traits. It's Startlingly Complex. There Are Few Or No Single Genes With A Consistent Effect On The Mind.

I Spent 20 Years Doing Research On Regular And Irregular Verbs, Not Because I'm An Obsessive Language Lover But Because It Seemed To Me That They Tapped Into A Fundamental Distinction In Language Processing, Indeed In Cognitive Processing, Between Memory Lookup And Rule-driven Computation.

In The 1970s, Many Intellectuals Had Become Political Radicals. Marxism Was Correct, Liberalism Was For Wimps, And Marx Had Pronounced That 'the Ruling Ideas Of Each Age Have Ever Been The Ideas Of Its Ruling Class.'

There Is No Society Ever Discovered In The Remotest Corner Of The World That Has Not Had Something That We Would Consider The Arts. Visual Arts - Decoration Of Surfaces And Bodies - Appears To Be A Human Universal.