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...Pinker??€™s addition as an endowed professor to the Department of Psychology reflects a recent shift in educational philosophy for the University. When he assumed Harvard’s University presidency, Lawrence H. Summers—an MIT alumnus—promised to increase focus on the sciences and further expand Harvard’s renown in fields outside the humanities. Pinker??€™s arrival here will be a decisive step in that process. His controversial study of the extent to which evolutionary forces and the genes shaped by them control individual human nature seems tailor-made...
According to Spelke, Pinker??€™s arrival will forge stronger connections between MIT and Harvard...
According to Hauser, Pinker??€™s time will be divided among three main activities: teaching, continuing his research, and writing the popular scientific books and articles that have made him a well-known figure outside his field...
Hauser lauds Pinker??€™s qualities as a teacher...
...Pinker??€™s current research touches on how people learn to speak, and how vision works in a three-dimensional world...