Hands

Suitable for the readers - including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists - this book offers an account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. It explores a range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools. 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.