File:Chimp and human hands.jpg

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English: Compared with a chimpanzee hand, at left, the human hand, at right, has shorter fingers and palms and a longer, stronger more flexible thumb. That not only allows fine manipulation of tools and other objects, but allows humans to make a clenched fist, which apes cannot.
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Source http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/50921.php?from=228578
Author Denise Morgan for the University of Utah.

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