邦訳：NHKブックスにて、（上）（中）（下）2009年3-4月刊行。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. In this new book, Pinker argues that the entire phantasmagoria of human thoughts (political ideologies, religious beliefs, prejudices, etc) are built out of a small number of core ideas, which have a clear evolutionary history. We, as humans, have the ability to extend our core concepts metaphorically to new domains, and to assemble them into new combinations.