The Role of hand and tool-use in the evolution of human cognition

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Yiğit, Duygu
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The hand is a defining element of the human kind which has been transformed during the evolutionary developments. The most important feature of the hand is the proficient tool-use. Two questions become central in the present work: has the dexterous hand changed the human mind and if so, in what ways?
Hand., Tools., Intellect., Cognition., Human beings.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26023
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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D. Yiğit, “The Role of hand and tool-use in the evolution of human cognition,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2016.
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