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Maybe Early Humans Weren't The First To Get A Good Grip

An example of a human precision grip — grasping a first metacarpal from the thumb of a specimen of <em>Australopithecus africanus</em> that's thought to be 2 to 3 million years old. (T.L. Kivell & M. Skinner)
An example of a human precision grip — grasping a first metacarpal from the thumb of a specimen of Australopithecus africanus that's thought to be 2 to 3 million years old. (T.L. Kivell & M. Skinner)

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