Prosthetic gestures: how the tool shapes the mind.
I agree with Vaesen that it is a mistake to discard tool use as a hallmark of human cognition. I contend, nonetheless, that tools are not simply external markers of a distinctive human mental architecture. Rather, they actively and meaningfully participate in the process by which hominin brains and bodies make up their sapient minds.
Keble College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PG, United Kingdom. lambros.malafouris@keble.ox.ac.uk
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D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013672:Technology; D053001:Tool Use Behavior