Print version: McGinn, Colin. Prehension : the hand and the emergence of humanity. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015 ISBN 9780262029322
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.