Do you have a strong grip?

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Many traits common in Neanderthals seem to be frequent in us. Example: occipital bun.
How about your thumb and how you hold tools? Does the following ring a bell?

  • Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, according to a paper published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that Neanderthals may have found precision grips — where objects are held between the tip of the finger and thumb — more challenging than power ‘squeeze’ grips, where objects are held like a hammer, between the fingers and the palm with the thumb directing force.

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-neanderthal-thumbs-tools.html

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