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#### 'E ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF A THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT ill (ITTY, LUCID AND ULTIMATELY ENTHRALLING' OBSERVER STEVEN PINKER o 'Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and and gripping ..To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche .. a glittering tour deforce' Hugh Lawson-Tancred, Spectator In this brilliant and controversial book, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, interact, enjoy the arts and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the clarity and style that earned The LANGUAGE INSTINCT worldwide critical acclaim and several major prizes. Pinker has a knack tor making the profound seem obvious of evolutionary insights' Economist A fascinating bag A landmark in popular science Independent A major public asset' MarekKohn, A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty and clear.)

x I HOW THE MIND WORKS The opening chapter presents the big picture: that the mind is a sys­ tem of organs of computation designed by natural selection to solve the

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