An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage.

January 20, 2026·1h 21m
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It’s time to high five and give each other some skin as The Two Humans celebrate those two work horses at the end of our arms—THE HANDS! Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources:   Alpenfels, Ethel J. 1955   The Anthropology and Social Significance of the Human Hand. Artificial Limbs, May 1, 1955, 2 (2), pp. 4-21.   Baccarini, Matteo and Angelo Maravita 2013   Beyond the Boundaries of the Hand: Plasticity of Body-Space Interactions Following Tool Use. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 77-99.   Bell, Charles 1852   The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design. London, John Murray.   Bremner, Andrew J. and Dorothy Cowie 2013   Developmental Origins of the Hand in the Mind, and the Role of the Hand in the Development of the Mind. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 27-55.    Bridgman, George B. 1920   The Book of a Hundred Hands. Dover Publications, Garden City, New York.   Britannica Editors 2021   Brachiation. Encyclopedia Britannica (website), December 20, 2021, www.britannica.com/science/brachiation.   Byrns, Arthur G. 1906   The Hand in Art. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1906), pp. 117-122.   Cahn, Laura 2024   14 Common Hand Gestures That Are Rude in Other Countries. Reader’s Digest, November 25, 2024, www.rd.com/article/common-hand-gestures-rude-in-other-countries/.   Cole, Jonathan 2013   “Capable of Whatever Man’s Ingenuity Suggests”: Agency, Deafferentation, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-25.    Cooperrider, Kensy 2020   Where Do Finger Names Come From? JSTOR Daily, January 1, 2020, daily.jstor.org/where-do-finger-names-come-from/.   Farmer, Harry and Manos Tsakiris 2013   Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 103-130.   Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park 2007   Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (Fifth Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Given, Leila 1929   The Bacterial Significance of the Handshake. The American Journal of Nursing, Mar., 1929, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Mar., 1929), pp. 254-256.   Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride 2011   Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Ninth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.   Helvetius, Claude Adrien 1810   De l’Esprit or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties (translated from the

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