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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGinn, Colin, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Temas:
Human evolution.
Hand > Evolution.
Evolution (Biology)
Hand.
Intellect.
Biological Evolution
Hand
Intelligence
Êtres humains > Évolution.
Main > Évolution.
Évolution (Biologie)
Main.
Intelligence.
evolution.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
Intellect
Hand > Evolution
Human evolution
PHILOSOPHY/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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