The Hand
Subtitle: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: September 14, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780679740476
Subjects: Communication Studies; Popular science; Science; Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology; Science/Mathematics; Cognitive Psychology; Neuroscience; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Hand; Physiology
First sentence: THE EARLIEST DIRECT HUMAN ANCESTORS were the australopithecines, "southern apes" of Africa who walked upright.
Description: This book delineates the ways in which our hands have shaped our development--cognitive, emotional, linguistic, and psychological--in light of the most recent research being done in anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology.