A worthy enterprise injured by overinterpretation and misrepresentation

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):638-638 (1996)
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The synthetic position adopted by Müller is weakened by a large number of overinterpretations and misrepresentations, together with a caricatured view of innateness and modularity.

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