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Steven Pinker

“As far as the language instinct is concerned, the correlation between genes and languages is a coincidence. People store genes in their gonads and pass them to their children through their genitals; they store grammars in their brains and pass them to their children through their mouths. Gonads and brains are attached to each other in bodies, so when bodies move, genes and grammars move together. That is the only reason that geneticists find any correlation between the two.”

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
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