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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 ...
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Discover Magazine on MSNFossils Reveal How Ancient Human Relatives Used Their Hands For Climbing and ToolsNew research uncovers how two ancient hominids used their hands in unique ways for climbing, tool use, and movement.
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 ...
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