Behold the wondrous complexity of the human hand. Twenty-seven bones working in concert with muscles, tendons, and ligaments extending up the forearm to produce a range of motions that gave us ...

They’ve built a robotic hand modeled so closely on human anatomy, it’s almost scary. The hand uses plastic components that are modeled to mimic human bones, with crocheted ligaments ...

Animating human hands has long been considered one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics. That's because it has been impossible to capture the internal movement of the hand in ...

Both the human hand and foot represent a triumph of complex ... The hand might seem, at first glance, a more interesting bit of our anatomy but, as foot surgeon Kartik Hariharan showed, the ...

However, it is unlikely that all these behaviours equally influenced modern human hand anatomy. To understand the impact these different actions may have had on the evolution of human hands ...

Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion.

(The human lineage, the genus Homo ... closer to 2 million years ago to find out when this transition to modern hand anatomy took place." Ward and her colleagues detailed their findings online ...

Scientists have long linked the evolution of the human hand—unique for its lengthy ... an outsized effect on the development of early hand anatomy. “These behaviors all involve different ...

Human’s mammalian ancestors also lost dorsometacarpales muscles from the back of the hand about 250 million years ago as mammals and reptiles split on the evolutionary tree. Lizards still have ...

Homo naledi, the ancient human ancestor whose fossils have been ... its well-preserved foot and hand bones. Its foot and hand anatomy shared many characteristics with our species but possessed ...

However, it is unlikely that all these behaviours equally influenced modern human hand anatomy. To understand the impact these different actions may have had on the evolution of human hands ...