Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery
Alfred Russel Wallace, Big Bang, Bonfire of the Vanities, Carrara marble, cosmogony, Descent of Man, Evolution, Genesis, George Lemaître, Headlong Hall, James Burnet, Johann Gottfried Herder, language, Lord Monboddo, Melincourt, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, Noam Chomsky, Oxford English Dictionary, Philological Society of London, Richard Lewontin, Sir Oran Haut-ton, Steady State, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Thomas Love Peacock, Tom Wolfe, Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache
A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Source