Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

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The Language Instinct has been criticized by Geoffrey Sampson in his book The 'Language Instinct' Debate.

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18 1954) is a Canadian-born experimental psychologist cognitive scientist linguist and popular science author. In his popular books he has argued that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection.