Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity / Colin McGinn.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

ix, 191 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins of humanity -- Two evolutionary principles -- Human prehistory -- Characteristics of the human hand -- Hands and tools -- Hands and language -- Ostension and prehension -- From signs to speech -- Hand and mind -- Selective cognition and the mouth -- The origin of sentience -- The meaning of the grip -- A culture of hands -- Arboreal remnants -- The future of the hand.