Human hand may be more primitive than chimpanzee's: study
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STRONG fists for defending ourselves and opposable thumbs for work as fine as threading a needle - hand specialisation is widely believed to have given humans a major evolutionary advantage.
On Tuesday, scientists in the United States and Spain said the human hand may be more primitive than that of our closest living cousin, the chimpanzee.
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