Prehension
Subtitle: the hand and the emergence of humanity
By: Colin McGinn
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780262029322
Subjects: Evolution; Human evolution; Hand
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins of humanity; title: Two evolutionary principles; title: Human prehistory; title: Characteristics of the human hand; title: Hands and tools; title: Hands and language; title: Ostension and prehension; title: From signs to speech; title: Hand and mind; title: Selective cognition and the mouth; title: The origin of sentience; title: The meaning of the grip; title: A culture of hands; title: Arboreal remnants; title: The future of the hand.