Hands: What We Do With Them – and Why by Darian Leader – review

Leader argues that humankind’s progress can be explained via our most dexterous limb in this fascinating, if frustrating bookHardly a day goes by without someone fretting about when automation is going to take away our jobs, how the only realities now are increasingly virtual and why digital devices have made us unable to concentrate. Psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s suggestion as to how we should think about these cultural transformations is nothing if not bold and original. “Wha