Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

As David Klinghoffer notes, Tom Wolfe's new book The Kingdom of Speech is out (and on Kindle too which makes me happy!). I'm a big fan of Wolfe.

For a little taste, Wolfe has an excerpt, "The Origins of Speech," in Harper's Magazine. He tells the fascinating story of Daniel Everett, the anthropologist who challenged Noam Chomsky's theory of language recursion. Chomsky famously has posited that human language arises from an innate ability of human beings to think and express ourselves via la...