Thumb Tribe? the new finger?

[Atari-Jess]

http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4380633,00.html

 

read it!

[StanJr]

Curious...

 

I'd like to see the research that generated this.

[Mindfield]

They talk about that like it's an evolutionary mutation when it's nothing more than simple excersize: whatever you use to do whatever you do frequently will quite obviously develop more prominently than other body parts. A weightlifter who lifts weights with only one arm is obviously going to have one well-defined, muscular arm, and one scrawny one. Nothing mystical or even worthy of scientific research about it, just simply the end product of prolonged exposure to Newtonian physics as applied to activities involving the human body.

 

It never ceases to amaze me the sort of absurd things researchers will dream up in order to cajole a government grant.

 

[ 03-25-2002: Message edited by: Mindfield ]