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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.

Primates --- Hand --- Anatomy. --- Evolution. --- Anthropoidea. --- Australian aborigine. --- Bridgewater Treatises. --- Chinese businessman. --- Cup of Diogenes. --- Hottentots. --- Karpinos. --- abstract thinking. --- adaptation. --- adaptive compromise. --- amphibian. --- anatomical nomenclature. --- anatomical position. --- arboreal specialists. --- bamboo shoot. --- bone-collectors. --- cannibalism. --- chimpanzee. --- comprehension. --- dexterity. --- dimorphism. --- discrimination of textures. --- ecology. --- ectrodactyly. --- environment. --- fibrous tissue. --- fingerprints. --- fossil history. --- gallock-handed. --- genetics. --- groomee. --- hairdressing salon. --- handedness. --- hypothenar eminence. --- imagination. --- improvisation. --- insulation. --- keratin. --- locomotion. --- lubrication. --- mammals. --- mental institution. --- multivariate analysis. --- natural selection. --- nerve endings. --- occupation. --- opposability. --- orangutan. --- parallelism. --- positional sense. --- primitive retention. --- red ochre.