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The hand : how its use shapes the brain, language, and human culture

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
Print Book, English, 1998
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Pantheon Books, New York, 1998
Music
xiv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780679412496, 0679412492
38016564
1. Dawn
2. The Hand-Thought-Language Nexus
3. The Arm We Brought Down from the Trees
4. Puppet Lessons from Alexandria and Dusseldorf
5. Hand, Eye, and Sky
6. The Grip of the Past
7. The Twenty-Four-Karat Thumb
8. The Right Hand Knows What the Left Hand Just Did
9. Bad Boys, Polyliths, and the Heterotechnic Revolution
10. The Articulate Hand
11. In Tune and Evolving Prestissimo
12. Lucy to LuLu to Rose
13. Tough, Tender, and Tenacious
14. Hidden in the Hand
15. Head for the Hands