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The thumb also has three joints, but the Proximal joint is farther up, embeded and mostly concealed in its muscles. That third [base joint] is what allows you to move the thumb to the left or right. NO. If you consider the thumb to have three joints you must be including the carpometacarpal joint which is (as far as i remember) a double saddle synnovial joint. This is the joint that joints the bone of the thumb that is concealed in the hand to the bones of the wrist. Within the visible thumb there is only two joints, the first being between the metacarpal and the proximal phalanx and the second being between the proximal and dislat phalanges. The other digits have and extra bone in the middle of these phalanges called the middle phalanx, giving it a third joint in the visible digit, or if you are including carpometacarpal joints as the original answer does with the thumb then you must do so for the fingers also which means they would have 4 joints each. And to answer the question the presence of a third joint in the thumb is simply unnecessary thanks the range of movement. The other digits require the extra joint so that the tips can come to meat close to the base of the visible digits so that before thumbs had evolvfed we could grasp small thin objects. The thumb has such a range of movement that this extra joint would be more effort to supply than its worth.
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∙ 13y agoThe thumb, is different from all the fingers because the thumb is the fattest finger also the most important because you really need a thumb for normal day life but it is possible tio live without one.
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∙ 14y agoIt depends but I think that since primates like us and monkeys only have opposable thumbs, they don't consider it a finger.
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∙ 12y agoTo be able to. Make a fist.
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∙ 13y agoPhalanges
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Why is your thumb called opposable?
The thumb on the human hand has only two phalanges, or joints, whereas human fingers each have 3 phalanges. This give the thumb greater movement and enables it to do things the fingers can't do. Collectively the fingers and thumbs are known as digits. The thumb is said to be opposable to the fingers. By definition, the thumb is both a finger and not a finger. "Finger" can mean any of the four digits besides the thumb OR any digit including the thumb. It is up to the person to decide whether or not the thumb is considered a finger.
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