Thumbs, Toes and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human. Chip Walter, Author. Walker $ (p) ISBN Humans are the only creatures that cry . · In this episode, journalist Chip Walter, author of Thumbs, Toes and Tears, takes us on a tour of the physical traits that are unique to humans, with special attention to crying, the subject of his Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Among the countless traits and behaviors that separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, six stand out―our big toe, opposable thumb, oddly shaped pharynx, and our abilities to laugh, kiss, and cry/5(28).
Chip Walter. Follow. · 9 min read. Around the time that Thumbs, Toes and Tears (my third book) came out, I wrote an article for Scientific American Mind magazine exploring the. *A term coined in my previous book Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human. This article was excerpted with permission from Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of. emotional tears. FRANS LANTING Minden Pictures COPYRIGHT SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. (The Author) CHIP WALTER is an internationally published science author who writes about the perplexing behavior of Homo sapiens and the technologies they create. His latest book is Thumbs, Toes and Tears —And Other Traits That Make Us Human (Walker Books.
The Traits That Make Us Humans In his new book Thumbs, Toes and Tears, author Chip Walter explores the physical and behavioral traits that are unique to humans. He notes that humans are the only. The fascinating evolutionary links between six seemingly unremarkable traits that make us the very remarkable creatures we are. Countless behaviors separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but all of them can be traced one way or another to six traits that are unique to the human race – our big toe, our opposable thumb, our oddly shaped pharynx, and our ability to laugh, kiss, and cry. Thumbs, Toes, and Tears by Chip Walter, Octo, Walker Company edition, Thumbs, Toes, and Tears And Other Traits That Make Us Human.
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