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
____________________
____________________
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
____________________
in
natural
selection
,
Pinker
claims
.
The
controversial
implications
are
obvious
:
that
men
and
women
might
____________________
in
their
inborn
abilities
at
performing
certain
tasks
,
for
example
,
or
that
parenting
may
have
____________________
influence
on
personalit
y
