Human Speech as a Stumbling Block for Darwinism -- Distilled to Five Minutes

Darwinian evolution accounts for adaptive features of organisms, or claims to do so. That is, it explains features that advance reproduction. With evolution, reproductive advantage is the name of the game. The theory chokes, however, on what is non-adaptive or "beyond-adaptive."

We are still savoring Tom Wolfe's takedown of evolution as an explanation of speech. But what Wolfe does in 169 pages in The Kingdom of Speech, our documentary short The Biology of the Baroque accomplishes even more...