An Evolutionary View on Speech Isn't "Settled Science"

And in large part it isn't even about science. That's the takeaway from an entertaining review at The American Spectator by Larry Thornberry of Tom Wolfe's The Kingdom of Speech:

Darwin's theories are not, in the modern phrase, settled science. They aren't even unsettled science. They are educated guesses at best. To be science, Wolfe reminds us, "There are five standard tests for a scientific hypothesis. Has anyone observed the phenomenon -- in this case, Evolution -- as it occurred and rec...