Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466810198
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2014-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

HABILIS

Howard Hendrix

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Is the universe left-handed? If so, why?

Hold up your hands before you and take a good look at them. What you are staring at is the most wonderful piece of biological engineering on Earth.

The human hand is the only one (on Earth) in which the thumb can touch the tips of each of the other four fingers. Only human hands can play the violin. Or throw a curveball.

Our hands developed before our brains did, as far as paleoanthropologists can determine. Did our supple hands lead to the development of our complex brains? And intelligence?

Howard Hendrix’s tale of right-handedness and left-handedness is a complex, subtle examination of these questions. But what are the answers? Read on.

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