Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity
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Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity
MIT Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-181) and index
Contents of Works
- Origins of humanity
- Two evolutionary principles
- Human prehistory
- Characteristics of the human hand
- Hands and tools
- Hands and language
- Ostension and prehension
- From signs to speech
- Hand and mind
- Selective cognition and the mouth
- The origin of sentience
- The meaning of the grip
- A culture of hands
- Arboreal remnants
- The future of the hand
