HandsPrinceton University Press, 14 бер. 1993 р. - 180 стор. 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. |
Зміст
CHAPTER | 3 |
CHAPTER | 13 |
CHAPTER THREE | 55 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 73 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 97 |
CHAPTER | 121 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 131 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 143 |
Suggested Reading and References | 159 |
| 169 | |
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Acheulian African anatomy animals arboreal australopithecines behavior bipedal body brachiators brain carpal characteristics chimpanzees Clactonian claws Courtesy culture dances developed digits distal double-locking Eocene evolutionary evolved example extensor Faulds feeding female fingerprints fingertips flakes flexion flexure lines foot-hand Fossil hand function gestures glands gorillas grasping hairs hand bones hand-axe handedness hominids Homo erectus Homo habilis Human Evolution human hand hypothenar hypothenar pad index finger joint knuckle-walking L.-handedness language Leakey left-handed left-handedness little finger loops macaques male mammals metacarpal monkeys and apes movements muscles nails Napier Neanderthalians nonhuman objects Olduvai Gorge opposable orangutan palm palmar pads papillary ridges pattern pebble-chopper percent phalanges Pleistocene possess posture power grip precision grip prehensile primates Proconsul prosimians quadrupedal radial Ridge Ending right-handed saddle joint side simian crease skin species speech stone synovial synovial joint tendon thenar thumb tion tissue tool-making tool-modifying tool-using Tuttle ulnar Washoe Wood Jones wrist