Q&A: Tom Wolfe on language and the mind

Jascha Hoffman

Nature, 2009, vol. 458, issue 7240, 837-837

Abstract: Behind the novelist's eye of Tom Wolfe — bestselling author of Bonfire of the Vanities — lies a keen interest in brain science. Discussing the origin of language this week with Steven Pinker at the Brainwave festival in New York, Wolfe explains why he sees human behaviour as more than mechanistic, and genetic theory as little more than literature.

Date: 2009
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