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That's because you don't need the muscles to actually be in the hands, pretty much all the muscles that enable the movements of the palm and the fingers are located in the forearm, in the hand there's only their tendons.

The few muscles that ARE in the hand are important though, one of them is the opponens that moves the thumb in opposition, making grasping possible, spreading the fingers is also possible thanks to the interossei muscles, and metacarpophalangic flexion and interphalangic extension is possible thanks to the lumbrical muscles. There's also hypothenar muscles but let's face it, the little finger is pretty much useless.

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