{"id":463,"date":"2003-04-01T02:10:26","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T02:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:04","slug":"neanderthals-handier-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"neanderthals handier than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you think of Neanderthals as lumbering, slow,  and clumsy? Think again, at least in regard to their hands. According to  a report in the March 27 <em>Nature,<\/em> Neanderthals were as manually dextrous  as modern humans. Neanderthals were previously thought unable to form  the &#8220;precision grip&#8221; &#8212; where the tips of the thumb and index finger  touch &#8212; necessary for fine manipulation. Researchers from California  State University in San Bernardino created a 3-D computer simulation  based on scans of Neanderthal hand bones to investigate their range of  motion. Even allowing for a small range of joint movement by modern  human standards, the simulation showed that Neanderthals could easily  achieve the precision grip. Whatever reason the Neanderthals went  extinct some 30,000 years ago, it &#8220;cannot be attributed to any physical  inability to use or manufacture&#8221; the stone tools of that era, say the  study&#8217;s authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/01\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think of Neanderthals as lumbering, slow, and clumsy? Think again, at least in regard to their hands. According to a report in the March 27 Nature, Neanderthals were as manually dextrous as modern humans. Neanderthals were previously thought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}