Prehension : : the hand and the emergence of humanity / / Colin McGinn.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
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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.