Physio and the Apes
Visiting a physiotherapist yesterday I learned something interesting - about the link between humans and apes.
Have you ever noticed the difference between the skin on your palms and soles, and that on most of the rest of your body?
(Aha, trivial pursuit time!)
The skin on most of your body moves, relatively independent of the flesh underneath.
The skin on your palms and soles doesn't - otherwise you'd slip. Which, of course, is what apes want to do when they're swinging through the trees.
And some of us humans retain the link. If you tense your hand, a ridge rises on the inside of your wrist - if you haven't fully evolved.
Or so he told me. But then, the ridge came up on one of his wrists and not on the other. Does that make him a "mape"?
posted by Lyn Devon @ 4:00 PM
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