The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

The premise of this book is that speech is the fundamental fact that differentiates man from animals. The origin of speech is unknown and all explanations for it have failed. In his hyperbolic but well-researched history of evolution, Wolfe questions the entire Darwinian enterprise and takes no prisoners. He is kinder to Wallace but saves his ammunition for Darwin, Chomsky, and Pinker. He is skeptical and entertaining. It is a short book and I am sure the powers of biology have dismissed it, but as a skeptic myself I liked it.