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Raymond Tallis

The John Maddox Lecture: Michaelangelo’s Finger

Hay Festival 2010, Tuesday 1 June 2010

The ability of the human index finger to point is truly unique in the animal world. Observing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the hugely familiar and awkward encounter between Michelangelo’s God and Man through their index fingers, Tallis identifies an intuitive indication of the central role of the index finger in our evolutionary pathway.