“I’m no anthropologist, but I always thought the palm-up gesture came from holding out your hand so that the person from whom you want something can put it there. That, at least, is what I have in mind when I ask someone for some cash or the salt. Isn’t it more plausible to suppose that the metaphorical meanings of the gesture evolved from its use by creatures that hold things in their hands than to think we’re echoing the submissive displays of lizards? ”
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Brother, Can You Spare a Banana?
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