Homo instrumentalis
Hands, tools, mathematics and science
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evolution, hands, language, technique, science, mathematicsAbstract
Ideas showing the role of the hands in the evolution that led to homo sapiens and the development of the our specie through technology and science are presented. If language (in whose emergence the hands played a significant role) was essential in the social development of our specie, the mathematics, developed by the need of the technique and the social organisation, played a decisive role in the evolution of our abstract thinking and technological achievements. A taxonomy for human technological development is proposed.
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