The Kingdom of Speech Large Print Edition Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316269964 ISBN-13: 9780316269964 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Speech & Pronunciation - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution |
Dewey: 302.224 |
LCCN: 2016942707 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (1.00 lbs) 304 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. |