Fitch patiently analyzes every idea, theory, and hypothesis he can find—beginning with a clear statement of the theme, then carefulliy marshalling all supporting and opposing arguments.
This book is an amazing achievement. Not only does it review essentially every significant bit of rowk on the evolution of language, it does so in a brilliant analytic fashion. Fitch patiently analyzes every idea, theory, and hypothesis he can find—beginning with a clear statement of the theme, then carefulliy marshalling all supporting and opposing arguments. He rarely misses a logical possibility or contradiction. He is competent in every field related to language, from animal communication to neurology to modern linguistic diversity. As a scholar of this field, I can’t imagine how one person can command this wide a literature.