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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: kingdom of speech
  name:
    name part: Wolfe, Tom
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 185 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: "Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--NoveList.
  abstract: "Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. Now the maestro storyteller turns his attention to the mystery behind the creation of his own most important tool: language. In The Kingdom of Speech, Wolfe makes the captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the self-taught Englishman who beat Charles Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it for its inability to explain human speech, to the neo-Darwinists, who for years argued that there is a language 'organ' in the human brain, Wolfe examines how science has repeatedly tried and failed to account for man's gift of gab. Flash forward to the present day and the controversial work of another outsider, anthropologist Daniel Everett. After thirty years of studying a tribe isolated deep in the jungles of the Amazon, Everett revealed a people whose prehistoric level of speech had led to a society without religion, ceremonies, hierarchies, marriage, or ornaments, and without the ability to plan ahead or to consider a past beyond personal lifetimes, thus defying the current wisdom that language is hardwired in humans. With trenchant wit and uproarious humor, Wolfe cracks open the secretive, solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zigzags of Darwinism, both old and neo-, and he shows the endless importance of the courageous outsider in overturning our most cherished ideas about ourselves. Provocative and fast-paced, Wolfe's latest tour de force will have everyone talking."--Dust jacket.
  table of contents: The beast who talked -- Gentlemen and old pals -- The Dark Ages -- Noam Charisma -- What the flycatcher caught -- The firewall.
  note: Tom Wolfe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-185).
  subject:
    topic: Language and culture
  subject:
    topic: Speech
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Oral communication
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Historical linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Historical linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Language and culture
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Oral communication
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Speech
  classification: P35 .W65 2016
  classification: 301
  classification: 401.9
  classification: 417.7
  identifier: 9780316404624
  identifier: 0316404624
  identifier: 9780316269964
  identifier: 0316269964
  identifier: 2016942707
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 151213
    record change date: 20160929121743.0
    record identifier: in00003742232
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng