Summary of Tom Wolfe's The Kingdom of Speech

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The most fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of our linguistic capacity remain as mysterious as ever. Scientists have been trying to answer them for decades, but have come up with nothing. #2 The author’s grandfather, Alfred Wallace, was a British naturalist who suffered from the Genghis ague, or malaria, in 1858. He came up with the solution to the mystery of mysteries: how evolution works.