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GARY F. MARCUS is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at New York University and Director of the NYU Infant Language Center. His research on language acquisition and computational modeling has been published in journals such as Science,Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology, and written for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the author of The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science, The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought, and Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind.