A bone found in Kenya is the earliest evidence of a modern human hand It is the third metacarpal which connects to the middle finger and the wrist There is a projection at the end of the bone which is ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Humans have a distinctive hand anatomy that allows them to make and use tools. Apes and other nonhuman primates do not have these distinctive anatomical features in their hands, and ...

The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old hand-bone fossil reveals that the modern human ability to make and use complex tools may have originated far earlier than scientists previously thought, ...

The styloid process allows the hand to lock into the wrist bones The discovery of an ancient bone at a burial site in Kenya puts the origin of human hand dexterity more than half a million years ...

The discovery of an ancient bone at a burial site in Kenya puts the origin of human hand dexterity more than half a million years earlier than previously thought. In all ways, the bone - a ...