The professor is a beguiling writer as his excellent recent book, "The Language Instinct," shows.

As in his earlier book "The Language Instinct," he rummages entertainingly.

"The Baby, the Bathwater, and the 'Language Instinct' Debate".

The Language Instinct: the new science of language and mind.

His book would soon be the inspiration of Steven Pinker's own book The Language Instinct.

The Language Instinct is a 1994 book by Steven Pinker.

But "The Language Instinct" is more than a straightforward popularization of Chomskyan theory.

The Language Instinct (1994)

In his book The Language Instinct, he writes:

The Language Instinct (1994) was the first of several books that combined cognitive science with behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology.