Hands

Hands

Hands

John Napier

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Princeton University Press
Año de edición:
1993
Materia
Biología humana
ISBN:
9780691025476
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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.

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