Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

Curved phalanges were adapted for climbing ... "One single bone from a pinkie finger does not imply a whole modern human-like skeleton," says Hublin, who was not involved in the study.

The whole set of bones, from the little flattened phalanges at the ends of your fingers up your arms to the shoulder blade, is really connected to the rest of the skeleton only by the tips of your ...

Among the reasons which they adduce for this conclusion is the fact that the “skeleton, which is of modern type, with filed teeth, was found completely articulated down even to the phalanges ...

The zygomatic bones that give our cheeks shape, the delicate phalanges of our fingers, and the bony bulbs that are our kneecaps all stand out from beneath the flesh. But the hyoid bone is hidden.

The bones in your fingers and toes are called phalanges. Metacarpals and metatarsals ... Your calcaneus, or heel bone, and the talus, which lies between your heel bone and the bottom of your ...

Scientists group the foot’s bones into into the phalanges, tarsal bones ... Bunions develop when the bone at the base of the toe — the first metatarsal — begins to separate from the bone ...

The bones in your fingers and toes are called phalanges. Metacarpals and metatarsals ... Your calcaneus, or heel bone, and the talus, which lies between your heel bone and the bottom of your ...