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020			_a9780316404624 (hardback)
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040			_aBTCTA _beng _cBTCTA _dYDXCP BDX AZZPT ON8 WIM ZHB BUR OU9 IMD VP@ UAB COO NKM OCLCF TXI LMR NAM VP@ IGA DLC UIAM _erda
050	0	0	_aP35
100	1		_aWolfe, Tom, _eauthor _9495115
245	1	4	_aThe kingdom of speech / _cTom Wolfe
264		1	_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Company, _c2016
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a185 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 170-185).
505	0		_aThe beast who talked -- Gentlemen and old pals -- The dark ages -- Noam Charisma -- What the flycatcher caught -- The firewall.
520			_a"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.
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aLanguage and culture _93509
650		0	_aSpeech _96010
650		0	_aHuman evolution _937769
650		0	_aOral communication _9214216
650		0	_aSocial history _962754
650		0	_aLanguage and languages _xOrigin
650		0	_aHistorical linguistics
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