Orangutans move with a fist-walking hand posture (fingers entirely ... Morton (1924) argued that the reason primates elongated the calcaneus and the navicular bones higher up in the foot instead ...

In 1960 tools were found together with the hand bones of a prehuman primate that lived more than a million years ago. This indicates that the hand of modern man has much earlier origins than had ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

These items included two 56-million-year-old jaw bones from an ancient ... The oldest known primate, Teilhardina, was small enough to fit into the palm of a human hand and had the first fingernails.

2009; Figure 2). However, these are very rare cases. Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils ...

But our earliest primate ancestors lacked this ability ... Anatomist and paleontologist Neil Shubin has long been inspired by the hand's architecture and abilities. He traces this quintessentially ...