The Kingdom of Speech Audiobook (Free)

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we should think we know about speech and human being evolution is wrong.

‘A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of most things, the idea of evolution.’ (Dwight Garner, NY Times)

Tom Wolfe, whose tale began in journalism, takes us with an eye-opening trip that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF Conversation is a fascinating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech–not evolution–is responsible for humanity’s complicated societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of organic 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 sees it irrelevant within the Kingdom of Speech.