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A parody in the Onion was headlined STUDY REVEALS: BABIES ARE STUPID. According to "research," infants cannot learn to scuba dive or read a map. The joke works because our expectations of babies' intelligence have been inverted--a small sign of the revolution brought about by Spelke's work.
Pinker is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at M.I.T. and author of Words and Rules, How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct
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