Hands (eBook)

John Napier (Autor)

Russell H. Tuttle (Herausgeber)

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2021
200 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4591-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Schlagworte: abstract thinking • Adaptation • adaptive compromise • Amphibian • anatomical nomenclature • anatomical position • anatomical terminology • Anatomical terms of motion • anatomy • Anthropoidea • arboreal specialists • Artery • Atrophy • Australian Aborigine • Australopithecine • Australopithecus • bamboo shoot • Behavior • Biology • bipedalism • body hair • bone-collectors • Brachiation • Bridgewater Treatises • Cannibalism • Carpal bones • Charles Darwin • Chimpanzee • Chinese businessman • claw • Coeliac Disease • comparative anatomy • Comprehension • Connective Tissue • Cup of Diogenes • delicacy • Dermatoglyphics • dexterity • diagram • dimorphism • discrimination of textures • Disease • Down syndrome • Ecology • ectrodactyly • Environment • Eocene • Evolutionary pressure • fibrous tissue • fingerprint • Fingerprints • Flake tool • Forelimb • fossil history • gallock-handed • Genetics • groomee • Grooming • hairdressing salon • Hand • handedness • hinge • hominidae • Homo • Homo erectus • Homo habilis • Homo sapiens • Hook grip • Hottentots • Human • Hypothenar • hypothenar eminence • Illustration • Imagination • Improvisation • index finger • insectivore • Insulation • Japanese macaque • Jaw • John Bonner • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Karpinos • Keratin • Klinefelter syndrome • Ligament • Little finger • Locomotion • Lubrication • Macaque • Mammal • mammals • marsupial • Mary Leakey • mental institution • Metacarpal bones • Metacarpophalangeal joint • Monograph • Mousterian • multivariate analysis • Muscle • natural language • Natural selection • nerve endings • New World monkey • Niles Eldredge • Occupation • Oldowan • olduvai gorge • Old World monkey • opposability • Orangutan • paleontology • Parallelism • Physician • Pierre Duhem • Placentalia • Plesiadapidae • pliers • Polydactyly • positional sense • prehensile tail • Prehensility • primitive retention • Prosimian • raw material • red ochre • Rhesus Macaque • Richard Feynman • Scientist • Spider Monkey • Stone tool • Swartkrans • Syndactyly • Synovial joint • Tarsier • Termite • Thenar eminence • Thomas Bewick • Thought • thumb • toe • Tool • Tooth • Weight-bearing • Werner Heisenberg • Wrist
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4591-2 / 1400845912
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4591-0 / 9781400845910