This man extended the work of Norbert Elias in suggesting that violence has been declining worldwide. One of this man's works identifies the fear of determinism and the fear of inequality as completely unfounded based on his views. This author of The Better Angels of Our Nature wrote a book discussing the seven words you can't say on television and asks what we actually mean when we say "fuck you". One work by this man was heavily criticized in a work by Geoffrey Sampson entitled Educating Eve.  Another work criticized the romantic conception of the noble savage and the conception of the mind as the ghost in the machine. Another of his works posits the existence of a universal grammar and draws an analogy between beavers building dams and humans speaking. For 10 points, identify this evolu
This man extended the work of Norbert Elias in suggesting that violence has been declining worldwide. One of this man's works identifies the fear of determinism and the fear of inequality as completely unfounded based on his views. This author of The Better Angels of Our Nature wrote a book discussing the seven words you can't say on television and asks what we actually mean when we say "fuck you". One work by this man was heavily criticized in a work by Geoffrey Sampson entitled Educating Eve.  Another work criticized the romantic conception of the noble savage and the conception of the mind as the ghost in the machine. Another of his works posits the existence of a universal grammar and draws an analogy between beavers building dams and humans speaking. For 10 points, identify this evolutionary psychologist and author of The Blank Slate and The Language Instinct.
This man extended the work of Norbert Elias in suggesting that violence has been declining worldwide.
Stephen Pinker