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Also known as John Hamilton McWhorter V

American academic and linguist

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  • The Story of Human Language, Part 2 of 3
  • The Story of Human Language, Part 3 of 3
  • The Story of Human Language, Part 1 of 3
  • Language Families of the World
  • Pronoun Trouble

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1965-10-06

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John Hamilton McWhorter V (1965– ) is an American linguist and political commentator. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His linguistic specialty is creole and the process through which it forms. McWhorter was born and raised in Philadelphia. He attended Friends Select School in Philadelphia, and after tenth grade was accepted to Simon's Rock College, where he earned an A.A. degree. Later, he attended Rutgers University and received a B. <a href="https://ww

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5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 200,620x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,712x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,354x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 34,338x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 28,853x

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  • We clap when our infants don't spill their food. We can afford to let go of clapping when exotic folks don't, when in our times, celebrating diversity is a shibboleth of moral legitimacy among thinking First World people, and considerably, if not comprehensibly, beyond.

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