Spongy bone responds to mechanical stress, so Chirchir and her colleagues decided to take CT scans of the hand bones of primates, including humans, to see if the bone differed based on how the ...

The creature newly discovered and named Archicebus achilles has become the latest world's oldest primate fossil and may be shedding light on our evolutionary roots soon. In a paper published in ...

Scientists have unearthed the oldest modern-looking hand bone from a human ancestor at a site in Africa, demonstrating that features we take for granted, like the ability to grip, go much further ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a hand bone to resemble that of a modern human.

Researchers have found differences between the knuckle joints of primates that will enable a better understanding of ancient human hand use.

Primate locomotion is the study of movements and postures in arboreal and terrestrial environments. Primates are masters of life in the trees, primarily due to their grasping hands and feet.

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Tracy Kivell, a biological anthropology professor at Kent, said the team’s findings could explain why other primates are able to crack nuts without the benefit of a human-like hand.

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 ...

19th century hand bones provide novel insights into the daily lives of early industrial women workers The hand skeletons of women workers from the early days of industrialization reflect the ...

The main difference between a human and a primate hand is that we have opposable thumbs, which let us grab objects better than primates.

A tiny bone from the little finger of a human ancestor that lived more than 1.84 million years ago in East Africa is the oldest "modern" hand bone ever found, say scientists.