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Arboreal Man


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Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POWER OF GRASP We have noted that the primitive animal we have been picturing could place the palm of its hand against any new hold with which it came into contact, and that the power of rotation possessed by its forearm enabled this contact to take place at a variety of angles. Its palms, for instance, may both be turned inwards so that a branch or other object can be held between their two opposed surfaces. This is a power which remains in the possession of many animals even after they have lost much of the primitive mobility of the fore-limb in quadrupedal life. As a general rule, the hopping animals and the semi- arboreal animals retain sufficient mobility to do this. Some of them can hold their food pressed between the two palms, and so are enabled to sit up and eat food held between their fore-paws. Others, which cannot attain to this, yet preserve sufficient mobility of the fore-limb to enable them to use it for a variety of minor purposes. The more thoroughly quadrupedal the animal is, the less is it able to turn its fore-limb to these minor uses. Familiarly, we may note that the typically quadrupedal dog will use its hind-feet for scratching, even the fore-end of its body; while the cat will scratch and wash its face with its fore-foot. But we are dealing, in possibilities, with something far bigger and more important than such things as these. We must not forget that in rescuing the fore-limb in its primitive mobile stage, before quadrupedal life had in any way impaired its power of rotation, we saved not only a primitive second segment, but aprimitive third segment as well. We may now say that we have rescued the third segment as a hand, and so preserved it from ever becoming a mere paw or a hoof. This is most important?perhaps as ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548532850
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0548532850
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2007
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 571 gr

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