A review by addystape
The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature and Modern Intellectual Life by Steven Pinker

3.0

Pinker challenges the idea that our minds are blank slates at birth, a philosophy put forth by Locke. Pinker support his case with a survey of recent medical, biological, and anthropological research. Pinker says that while we have clung to the idea to maintain that all human beings are all equal at birth, we can not discount the role nature/genetics plays in our makeup and our behavior. Not usually my type of read, was sort of thrust upon me as a book club read, but still enjoyed it.