Hands

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.

Author: John Napier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/14/1993
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.61w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780691025476

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/15/1993

About the Author
The late John Napier was a physician specializing in hands, and was also a professor and writer on primates and evolution. Russell H. Tuttle is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.