03117cam a2200325 4500 525907408 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781478965848 1478965843 ae1e41ce-eecb-4691-b241-e48132e06118 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2817380 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wolfe, Tom. The Kingdom of Speech [OverDrive]. Hachette Book Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 128MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 128MB. Science. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>First there was the word. Or was there?</p> <p>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 hiw own most important tool.</p> <p>In <i>The Kingdom of Speech</i>, 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 explains how science has repeatedly tried and failed to account for man's gift of gab.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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, this is a <i>tour de force</i> from Wolfe.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Petkoff, Robert. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/2817380-TheKingdomOfSpeech.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ae1e41ce-eecb-4691-b241-e48132e06118&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/2817380-TheKingdomOfSpeech.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ae1e41ce-eecb-4691-b241-e48132e06118&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)