Hands

Produktbeschreibung

Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Pt. 1

Nature and Evolution of the Hand

Ch. 1

"You Need Hands. . ."

3

Ch. 2

Structure of the Hand

13

Ch. 3

Function of the Hand

55

Ch. 4

Evolution of the Hand

73

Pt. 2

Social and Cultural Aspects of the Hand

Ch. 5

Tool-Using and Tool-Making

97

Ch. 6

Handedness

121

Ch. 7

Fingerprints

131

Ch. 8

Gestures

143

Suggested Reading and References

159

Index

169 

Autoreninfo

The late John Napier was a physician specializing in hands, and was also a professor and writer on primates and evolution. Russell H. Tuttle is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.