Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.