Language Is a Rock Against Which Evolutionary Theory Wrecks Itself

As I've noted already, Tom Wolfe has a new book, The Kingdom of Speech, and it's superb. Wolfe's theme is that human language is unique and is not shared in any way with other animals. He argues forcefully that evolutionary stories about the origin of human language are not credible.

In the first chapter of his book, Wolfe describes an article in journal Frontiers of Psychology from 2014, co-authored by leading linguist Noam Chomsky.

Wolfe:

"The most fundamental questions about the origins...