Why nature & nurture won't go away

Daedalus

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 5-17

  Pinker, Steven ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 15944408168     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0011526042365591     Document Type: Article

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51. The writing of this paper was supported by NIH Grant HD-18381. I thank Helena Cronin, Jonathan Haidt, Judith Rich Harris, and Matt Ridley for comments on an earlier draft.