{"product_id":"9780316404631","title":"The Kingdom of Speech","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution.\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015960346864,"sku":"9780316404631","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316404631_p0.jpg?v=1765232953","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316404631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}