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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
by Steven Pinker

PREFACE (part I)
" Not another book on nature and nurture! Are there really people out there who still believe that the mind is a blank slate? Isn't it obvious to anyone with more then one child, to anyone who has been in heterosexual relationship, or to anyone who has noticed that children learn language but hause pets don't, that people are born with certain talants and temperaments? Haven't we all moved beyond the simplistic dichotomy between heredity and environment and realized that all behavior comes out of an interaction between the two?"

This is the kind of reaction I got from colleagues when I explained my plans for this book. At first glance the reaction is not unreasonable. Maybe nature versus nurture is a dead issue. Anyone familiar with current writings on mind and behavior had seen claims to middle ground like these: