In a passage from his latest book, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe ponders why science has failed repeatedly to account for human speech, much less grasp what it means.
One bright night in the year 2016, my face aglow with godknows how many MilliGAUSS of x-radiation from the computer screen in front of me, I was surfing the net when I moused upon a web node reading: THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION.1