Hands Of Primates
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Hands Of Primates
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Author : Holger Preuschoft
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Hands Of Primates written by Holger Preuschoft and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Social Science categories.
The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human characteristics, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, «manipulative» handling of parts of the environment. The German term «Begreifen», which is commonly used for the understanding of complex relationships in a generalised, abstract sense, always implies the original meaning of seizing objects with the aid of the hands. The hands are also of greatest importance for the survival of the other, non-human primates. Hands are absolutely essential for locomotion in an arboreal habitat, and the intake of food is dependant on the use of the hands as well: primates very rarely take in food directly with their mouths, in the wast majority of cases they seize food items with their hands. Even drinking is often performed by dipping the hand into the water and licking the drops from hand and forearm. An organ of such importance will very probably be «adapted» to its «function». This statement is made so often, that any further considerations seem superfluous. Nobody doubts, that the hands of primates are highly adaptive organs, the general form and internal structure of which are closely related to the necessities of life. However, if one tries to go beyond this general statement, he finds himself confront ed with several problems: First of all, a point which W. GUTMANN has emphasized repeatedly: according to the results obtained by genetics, the first thing to appear is the mutated character.
Hands Of Primates
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Author : Holger Preuschoft
language : en
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Hands Of Primates written by Holger Preuschoft and has been published by Springer Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Hands
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Author : John Napier
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Hands written by John Napier and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Science categories.
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.
The Evolution Of The Primate Hand
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Author : Tracy L. Kivell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-10
The Evolution Of The Primate Hand written by Tracy L. Kivell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-10 with Science categories.
This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Across the chapters, different authors have addressed a variety of specific questions and provided their perspectives, but all explore the main themes described above to provide an overarching “primitive primate hand” thread to the book. Each chapter provides an in-depth review and critical account of the available literature, a balanced interpretation of the evidence from a variety of perspectives, and prospects for future research questions. In order to make this a useful resource for researchers at all levels, the basic structure of each chapter is the same, so that information can be easily consulted from chapter to chapter. An extensive reference list is provided at the end of each chapter so the reader has additional resources to address more specific questions or to find specific data.
The Human Hand
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Author : John Russell Napier
language : en
Publisher: Scientific Publications Division Carolina Biological Supply
Release Date : 1976
The Human Hand written by John Russell Napier and has been published by Scientific Publications Division Carolina Biological Supply this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A Hand Book To The Primates
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Author : Henry Ogg Forbes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
A Hand Book To The Primates written by Henry Ogg Forbes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Science categories.
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Hand Book To The Primates
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
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A Hand Book To The Primates
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Author : Henry Ogg Forbes
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-03-08
A Hand Book To The Primates written by Henry Ogg Forbes and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-08 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Life Of Primates
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Author : Adolph Hans Schultz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Life Of Primates written by Adolph Hans Schultz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Science categories.
Hand Function And The Neocortex
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Author : A.W. Goodwin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Hand Function And The Neocortex written by A.W. Goodwin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Medical categories.
To watch a curious young macaque explore and manipulate his immediate surroundings must surely delight and amaze us all. The monkey selects a particular objectfor scrutiny, reaches out and grasps it, handles it delicately with the fingers or more forcibly with the hand, scans the various surfaces with the fin ger pads, and finally identifies it. If we compare this monkey's adroitness and discriminative capacities with our own, at once we have a concise statement of important biological similarities and differences among primates. While there are species diffe rences in the functional anatomy of the hand, in tactile sensibi lity, and in the control of hand movements, these are relatively minor. The real difference in the dexterity of the two species relates to the complexity of the task that is executed: no monkey, and for that matter only one man in a century, paints a Guernica, although an astute investigator can readily teach the monkey to flourish a brush and paint a few strokes. The goal of the symposium, of which this book is a summary, was to examine current knowledge of those cortical mecha nisms that determine the sensorimotor functions of the hand that are common to man and the monkey - mechanisms accessible to analysis by recording the responses of single cortical neurons while the monkey explores and manipulates his surroundings.