But a dog, clutched by the neck from the back, can never be a match for two men, gifted with the intelligence and deftness of men, each of them two-handed with four fingers and an
opposable thumb to each hand.
One of our fundamental attributes is the
opposable thumb. This allows us to make a 'precision grip' between fingers and thumb, as well as the 'power grip' of the grasping hand.
Collections of his work include
Opposable Thumb (subpress, 2006), Homework (Lunar Chandelier, 2010), and Idea for a B Movie (Free Scholars Press, 2016).
"Of course, there's a lot more to using your arms and hands than this, but being able to grasp and use your
opposable thumb is very valuable," Huskey said.
Sir David explained how the ground-breaking scenes came about accidentally, as he had merely planned to get close to the animals to narrate a piece about the
opposable thumb.
Of course we have the
opposable thumb, our bipedalism, language, an asteroid, and other lucky twists of fate to thank as well, but imagination may be "the fragile foundation on which human society is built" (Catherine Brahic).
I used an
opposable thumb to slow the spinning spool on my baitcaster rig, and plopped a floating Rapala within an inch of a submerged tree.
Second, the hand developed an
opposable thumb, which transformed the primate hand into a proto-tool.
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversize brain case and the
opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure.
If the turning point of evolution was the biological miracle of the
opposable thumb, it is all you need today to launch a satellite into space.
after all only the
opposable thumb a mechanical aid to those who write
In order to create a functional hand, both Wood and Tada advocate the ablation of the hypoplastic digit, creation of three good digits with an
opposable thumb as the preferable route in the reconstructive surgery algorithm.