Tag: hands
The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight
Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis.
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.
Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire
Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making.
Hand Me Some Information: Using Finger Heat for Signals
Researchers show that the hand can reveal information as infrared light, which can be manipulated in multiple ways for encryption, illumination, and design.
Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire
Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire.