Books like Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

Jared Diamond explains how geography, biology, and human ingenuity shaped the world’s unequal societies in his Pulitzer‑winning study of civilization and social evolution.

Richard Dawkins’ classic, The Selfish Gene reexamines evolution from the perspective of genes as primary agents, arguing that organisms serve as vehicles for gene replication.

In *Enlightenment Now*, Steven Pinker presents data-driven evidence that life, health, prosperity, safety, and peace have risen worldwide, arguing that the principles of reason, science, and humanism keep society progressing and defend against ideological threats.

Overestimates of violence beg the question: is modern society the most peaceful era? Steven Pinker argues that, through centuries of decline, violence has steadily fallen, revealing humanity’s better angels.

Steven Pinker challenges the century-old belief that the human mind has no innate traits, arguing that acknowledging our biological foundations is essential for understanding politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.

Steven Pinker explains what rationality means, the mental habits that foster or hinder it, and why widespread rationality benefits society.

Explores late adulthood through case studies, examining life satisfaction, grandparenting, aging work and the pursuit of long‑delayed dreams.

Arthur Jensen has systematically developed a seminal concept first discovered by Charles Spearman in the 1920s: individual and group differences in mental ability exist, and these differences can be measured by a single, general factor, g. On its surface, this concept seems innocuous. However, Jensen does not draw back from its most controversial conclusions - that the average differences in IQ and other abilities found between sexes and racial groups have a substantial hereditary component, and that these differences have important societal consequences. The culmination of his career is the most comprehensive treatment of g ever written, The g Factor. In it, Dr. Jensen not only clearly explains the psychometric, statistical, genetic, and physiological basis of g, in the process he also refutes all major challenges that have been brought against the concept of general mental ability.