The Kingdom of Speech

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology, History
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Author: Tom Wolfe ISBN: 9780316404648
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication: August 30, 2016
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company Language: English
Author: Tom Wolfe
ISBN: 9780316404648
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication: August 30, 2016
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Language: English

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.

"A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)

Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.

"A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)

Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

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