The Kingdom of Speech Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316404632 ISBN-13: 9780316404631 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - History | Expeditions & Discoveries |
Dewey: 302.224 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.40 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. 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. |