Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity /
"This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing on evolutionary biology, anatomy, archaeology, linguistics, psychology, an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The MIT Press,
[2015]
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| ISBN: | 9780262331043 0262331047 9780262331050 0262331055 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.