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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 27

    Darwin: “Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, but no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew, or write.” The Language Instinct (1994/2007)https://stevenpinker.com/publications/language-instinct#.W9QX4geBhOE.twitter …

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      1. karter‏ @retrak Oct 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        It’s 1 am Steven chill I’m trying to look at memes

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      2. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 Oct 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Man also has an instinctive tendency to sleep in the middle of the night and when people have your tweets on notification we think our aunt died it something when our phones go off at three AM and it's just you tweeting about brewing and baking haha

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      3. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Oct 27
        Replying to @TBlackford3 @sapinker

        I’m sorry to hear about your aunt.

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      4. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 Oct 27
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        Hahaha

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      2. Rasmus F Private‏ @rsmsfbr Oct 27
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        Is that really true though? Seems to me the tendencies to enact activities of adults/society comes very naturally to kids as well. Albeit in rudimentary form, just like the speech.

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      3. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Oct 27
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        Oral language, not written.

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      1. Jeffrey Deutsch‏ @asplint Oct 27
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        Darwin never met my older daughter. She's been mixing all sorts of "concoctions" since she was about four. PS: Are you traveling, or an extreme night owl?

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      1. Sterile Promontory‏ @sterileprom Oct 27
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        Nor has Man an instinctive tendency to risk a purely ideological stand that's not part of a solution to imminent material needs. e.g. Many make hirsute choices but few take a lifelong stand on one hairstyle paradigm when it runs contrary to all we've learned this past 50 years!

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      1. Aidan K.‏ @WellsiteGeo Oct 27
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        I'm guessing that's from "Descent of Man". As usual, Darwin showing his observation of what *isn't* there.

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      2. Jeremy Rosenberg‏ @camprosenberg Oct 27
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        It’s a fair point, that language is innate. Yet, many of your followers then grant themselves license to be ignorant, offensive or tribal. Language has the power to influence thought. It’s not either/or, but both.

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      3. Aidan K.‏ @WellsiteGeo Oct 27
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        I would expect kids to be extremely tribal too. I don't know about "toddlers", but certainly by start-of-school, they know who is *other* and should be punished for it.

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