Opposable thumbs, cranial size, altruism and cooking all played a part, but central to the naked ape's success was its ability to dominate other species.
The scuba-bot’s human-like hands, with its nimble fingers and opposable thumbs, are fantastic tools for the slow, fiddly work involved in taking underwater samples.
Alpacas have too big, sturdy toes, primates usually have big strong feet with very long flexible toes and a thumb like opposable finger for gripping and swinging.
As humans, our opposable thumbs and culinary arts have helped us get around a lot of plant defense systems, but furanocoumarins can still affect us if we're not careful.
For example, your ability to touch your thumb to your fingertips or give a thumbs up is thanks to opposition movement, facilitated by your saddle joint, which makes your thumbs opposable.
If you want to start eating differently, the power is, to a large extent, in your own hands -- with those marvellous opposable thumbs -- as well as in your nose.
As humans, our opposable thumbs and culinary arts have helped us get around a lot of plant defense systems, but furanocoumarins can still affect us if we’re not careful.
One of the hallmarks of being a hominid is having opposable thumbs: stronger, longer and more flexible than the thumbless hands of a spider monkey or the non-opposable thumbs of a marmoset.
Wang said: " It uses the false thumb as a very crude opposable thumb to grasp bamboo, sort of like our own thumbs except it is located at the wrist and is much shorter than human thumbs."
Peter wants to know the meaning of the expression " opposable thumb." An opposable thumb, in humans and other primate animals, is the ability of the thumb to be placed against the other fingers of the hand.
Peter 想知道“对生拇指” 这个表达含义。在人类和其他灵长类动物中,对生拇指是拇指与手其他手指相对能力。
Among the key features found in primates are hands and feet that can grasp and often have opposable thumbs and toes. That means that primates are better than other animals at holding, moving and using objects.