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THE HAND: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture - First edition1998, ISBN: 0679412492
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Anthropology, neuroscience, music, and puppetry all figure prominently in The Hand, which effortlessly guides the reader through its million-year biography. Brains and thumbs growing and changing to accommodate each other, discovering tools and language together, kicked us out of the monkey house for good. While there is still controversy over whether we are the brainiest animals on the planet, it is abundantly clear that we are the handiest.
This manipulative ability is our greatest strength and our most terrible flaw. Without hands we would have no Louvre but also no nerve gas. But, Wilson says, our situation is more complex. Our access to far greater means to achieve our ends gives us a greater hunger for meaning. We long to use our hands to satisfy our needs--whether spiritual or down-to-earth. This creation of meaning from nothing may be our greatest achievement. In the end, The Hand is brightly optimistic, showing that our reach truly does exceed our grasp. --Rob Lightner
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780679412496
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0679412492
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Publishing year: 1998
Publisher: Pantheon
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ISBN/EAN: 9780679412496
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Book author: wilson frank
Book title: die hand, the hand, hand and brain, language brain, languages and cultures, language shape, through the looking brain, hand use, hand culture
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