Walter, Chip
Thumbs, toes, and tears : and other traits that make us human - New York : Walker and Company, 2006 - xiii, 256 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Prologue
[pt]. 1. Toes
1. The curious tale of the hallux magnus
2. Standing up : sex and the single hominid
[pt]. 2. Thumbs
3. Mothers of invention
4. Homo hallucinator : the dream animal
[pt]. 3. Pharynx
5. Making thoughts out of thin air
6. I am me : the rise of consciousness
7. Words, grooming, and the opposite sex
[pt]. 4. Laughter
8. Howls, hoots, and calls
[pt]. 5. Tears
9. The creature that weeps
[pt]. 6. Kissing
10. The language of lips
Epilogue : Cyber sapiens : the human race, version 2.0
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index.
Explores six seemingly unconnected but unique human traits and explains how and why humans do what they do and look the way they do, as well as other characteristics that provide a portrait of the human species.
9780802715272 0802715273
Emotion
Human Behaviour
Human Being
Human Evolutions
599.938 / WAL
Thumbs, toes, and tears : and other traits that make us human - New York : Walker and Company, 2006 - xiii, 256 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Prologue
[pt]. 1. Toes
1. The curious tale of the hallux magnus
2. Standing up : sex and the single hominid
[pt]. 2. Thumbs
3. Mothers of invention
4. Homo hallucinator : the dream animal
[pt]. 3. Pharynx
5. Making thoughts out of thin air
6. I am me : the rise of consciousness
7. Words, grooming, and the opposite sex
[pt]. 4. Laughter
8. Howls, hoots, and calls
[pt]. 5. Tears
9. The creature that weeps
[pt]. 6. Kissing
10. The language of lips
Epilogue : Cyber sapiens : the human race, version 2.0
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index.
Explores six seemingly unconnected but unique human traits and explains how and why humans do what they do and look the way they do, as well as other characteristics that provide a portrait of the human species.
9780802715272 0802715273
Emotion
Human Behaviour
Human Being
Human Evolutions
599.938 / WAL