Your Hands: How They Shape and Reveal Your Nature

by Connie Leas

College-educated lefties earn more than their right-handed counterparts. The length of your ring finger relative to your index finger can predict sports ability. Abnormal palm lines indicate chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down syndrome. Such little-known, yet fascinating, information is the stuff of Connie Leas' book, a wide-ranging exploration of our hands, beginning with their evolution and including their roles in shaping us, both as a species and as individuals. In lively, easy-to-read prose, Leas explains how our hands and brains imprint each other in ways that ultimately find expression in our gestures, handedness, palms, prints, handwriting and more.

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2013