Buy Used

$1.00

+ $3.99 shipping

Used: Good | Details

Sold by FTBOOKS

Condition: Used: Good

Comment: We are certain you will be delighted with our high level of customer service. all our books are in 'Good' or better condition and we ship daily from our UK warehouse.

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

26 used & new from $1.00

See All Buying Options

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

The Finger Book Hardcover – March 6, 2008

by John T. Manning (Author)

2 customer reviews

See all 2 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Hardcover

"Please retry"

—

$9.43

$1.00

Paperback

"Please retry"

—

$5.98

$0.50

This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease. Controversial, but unfailingly clear and balanced, John Manning's cutting-edge research poses many fruitful questions about what makes us as we are.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Richard Unger

43

Paperback
$11.80

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

John Manning's research has been published in newspapers worldwide. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire and has been described by Professor Robert Trivers as 'one of the most creative and exciting people working today on human biology from an evolutionary perspective'.

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product Details

Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber (March 6, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571215394
ISBN-13: 978-0571215393
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,132,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3297 in Books > Medical Books > Basic Sciences > Physiology
- #15502 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Biology

Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price?

Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars

5 star		0%
4 star		0%
3 star		100%
2 star		0%
1 star		0%

See both customer reviews

Share your thoughts with other customers

Write a customer review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

Finger book

By pjmc on August 15, 2014

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

Confused as this came from Geier Library Bershire School with Library card sleeve still in book???

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

13 of 21 people found the following review helpful

Evopsychology heads for fun and fury

By Chris Brand on May 14, 2008

Format: Hardcover

This book, by a British evolutionary psychologist at the University of Lancashire (formerly Preston Polytechnic), argues that there are links between ring-finger length (RFL), testosteronization in the womb, masculinity, personality, polygamy and race. It gets off to a slow start, but there is drama enough by the finish.

The ring finger is hairier in males than other digits, perhaps reflecting its being more under the influence of the sex hormone testosterone and its being assigned for the wedding ring. In any case, RFL, relative to index-finger length (the normal ratio in Whites is approximately 1:1), is greater in males and also in top athletes and sportsmen, autists, attention-deficit children and butch lesbians; and it correlates negatively with psychologists' measures of agreeability, gentleness and femininity. Thus goes the first 90% of Manning's (rather repetitive) book.

Of course there are some problems. It is not obvious why RFL should be measured from the point of the finger's lowest skin crease with the palm rather than from the knuckle. The inter-observer reliability for RFL is not stated or even considered. There seems no special reason why testosterone should especially affect the growth of the ring finger. All the associations with RFL mentioned above are pretty slight (Manning does not give correlations but his occasional scattergrams indicate effect sizes of around .25).Read more ›

1 Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

See both customer reviews (newest first)

Write a customer review