10 Recommended Books by Psychologist Steven Pinker That Will Expand Your Brain (No, I’m Not Kidding)
On trusting science and data
10 min readJan 19, 2024
How do children acquire language?
This is one of the research topics that Steven Pinker has worked on as a cognitive psychologist and psycholinguist. He has concluded that language also goes through the process of natural selection.
Pinker is the author of several books. These include, ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’ and ‘Enlightenment Now’.
His recommended list of books will enlighten you about the universe, our world, and science.
Let’s go through their overview.
1. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
Who made us, God or natural selection?
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and an author.
In this book, he argues that only Darwin’s theory of evolution provides a logical explanation of human origin.
