The ability of humans (and some animals) to close our hand or hands around an object means we can exert greater control over our environment. We can pick up and eat food. We can raise objects in a hand, carry objects, throw them, etc.
hand
Pincer?
the Flexorum digitorum
The influence of photographs is the better grasping of the subject at hand; a picture is worth a thousand words.
Farmers harvest it by grasping it in one hand then cutting it at the base with a sickle, then when they have done this to a whole field of it they collect it
The Brandt Andrew Maneuver is a method of expressing the placenta after child birth by grasping the umbilical cord with one hand and placing the other hand on the abdomen.
The cast of Hot Hand Advantage - 2006 includes: Brett Granstaff as himself
Without the thumb, the fingers and hand can not make prehensile movements. That is what grasping needs...the thumb.
it does most of the work for you
it means the coordinated control of eye movement with hand movement, and the processing of visual input to guide reaching and grasping along with the use of proprioception of the hands to guide the eyes.
I was grasping for a glass that my husband put on the top shelf of the cabinet.
Yes. Argonia's have an advantage in that.