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That is because it is the only finger that can fully touch your palm and that allows it to help you move and hold things with your hands. If you don't think I am right, then next time you try to drink your water out of a glass, try doing it without your thumbs.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe thumb is described as "opposable" meaning that it can wrap around something in the opposite or opposing direction to that of the other four fingers; this gives a tremendously better grip than if all the fingers wrap around an object (whatever it may be, originally a tree limb) in the same direction.
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∙ 10y agoThe thumb is like the pole of your house. Without it, your hands are useless in holding or using anything. It is important to have thumbs because your thumbs help you to do everything in your life.
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∙ 15y agoyour thumbs are important because if not you would not be able to hold many things just go a whole day without using your thumb and you will know what i mean.
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∙ 13y agoIt isn't necessarily the most important part of the hand, but it is significant. The thumb is the opposing digit which allows us to grasp objects.
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What is the activities you can not do without thumbs?
No is the answer to that question, your thumbs are very important, try tying a lace without thumbs it is impossible, or attempt to pick up a small coin, cant be done.
Why do we have thumbs?
So you can pick stuff up. Without thumbs, you couldn't grab things, and therefore you wouldn't really be able to do anything. APPRICIATE YOUR THUMBS!
What was the purpose of the human hand adaptation lab?
using masking tape tightly tape each of your thumbs to the palm of the hand
Why is a genome so important?
The human genome is all of the bodies DNA
Why is the gesture thumbs up which means okay so appropriate to the thumb itself?
no
Why are thumbs so important?
The thumb is like the pole of your house. Without it, your hands are useless in holding or using anything. It is important to have thumbs because your thumbs help you to do everything in your life.
What are human qualities?
opposable thumbs
Do frogs have thumbs?
the male frog has a black dot on their thumbs so they have thumbs
Why is the human hand such an important adaptation?
Just think about it, if we didn't have any thumbs, we wouldn't be able to pick up anything. Thin about picking up a cup of coffee with 2 hands, and trying to do something else, its just not possible without thumbs.
What is the activities you can not do without thumbs?
No is the answer to that question, your thumbs are very important, try tying a lace without thumbs it is impossible, or attempt to pick up a small coin, cant be done.
Why do we have thumbs?
So you can pick stuff up. Without thumbs, you couldn't grab things, and therefore you wouldn't really be able to do anything. APPRICIATE YOUR THUMBS!
How many fingers have human?
Most humans have 10 fingers, including their thumbs.
How many bones in human thumbs?
3 because if you count it and feel it
Why is the management of diversity so important to the study of human relations?
diversity so important to the study of human relations
Why are Taylor jayne's thumbs so fat?
because Taylor jayne's thumbs are fat
Do dogs have opposable thumbs?
Yes they do, their thumbs are just so high up that they cant use them.
How many saddle joints are in the human body?
There is the sternoclavicular-joint and the carpalmetacarpal-joint of the thumb. So in total: 4
