Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity /

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Autor Principal: McGinn, Colin, 1950- (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: 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.