TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolfe,Tom
TI  - Kingdom of speech
SN  - 9781784704896 (pbk.) :
AV  - P140 
U1  - 417.7 WOL 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Languages
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - 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 our 'Kingdom of Speech'
ER  -