Pinker has argued that swathes of our mental, social and emotional lives may have ORIGINATED as evolutionary adaptations, well
suited to the lives our ancestors eked out on the Pleistocene savannah. Sometimes it seems as if nothing is I MMUNE from being
explained this way. Road rage, adultery, marriage, altruism, our tendency to reward senior executives with corner offices on the top
floor, and the small number of women who become mechanical engineers - all may have their ROOTS in natural selection, Pinker
claims. The controversial implications are obvious: that men and women might DIFFER in their inborn abilities at performing certain
tasks, for example, or that parenting may have LITTLE influence on personality