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The Kingdom of Speech Large Print Edition
Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author)
ISBN: 0316269964     ISBN-13: 9780316269964
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
OUR PRICE:   $35.15  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2016
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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
 
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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.