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Moreover, psychology has offered little help in understanding the origins of complex manual skills. The mechanisms controlling reaching and grasping and their development have been carefully analyzed (Connolly 1998; Fitts & Posner 1967) but until recently little attention has been paid to what is done with an object once grasped (Bril, Roux & Dietrich 2000; Roux 2000). This chapter, then, also constitutes a plea for broader-based research on the psychology of skill acquisition and the relationship between complex manual tasks and mental abilities.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Martin, R. D. & Harvey, P. H. (1985). Brain size allometry: ontogeny and phylogeny. In Size and Scaling in Primate Biology, ed. W. L. Jungers, pp. 147–74. New York: Plenum Press. McHenry, H. M. (1988). New estimates of body weight in early hominids and their significance to encephalization and megadontia in robust australopithecines. In The Evolution of the “Robust” Australopithecines, ed. F. E. Grine, pp. 133–48. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. (1992). Body size and proportions in early hominids.