Do my finger prints enhance my capacity to grasp objects by having peaks and troughs on the surface areas of my hands and for that matter do foot prints enhance capacity for traction for similar potential reasons?
monkey skipper said:
Do my finger prints enhance my capacity to grasp objects by having peaks and troughs on the surface areas of my hands and for that matter do foot prints enhance capacity for traction for similar potential reasons?
i remember reading somewhere that finger prints evolved to give humans better grip on wet objects, but that was a long tome ago and they’ve probably changed their minds by now
stumpy_seahorse said:
monkey skipper said:
Do my finger prints enhance my capacity to grasp objects by having peaks and troughs on the surface areas of my hands and for that matter do foot prints enhance capacity for traction for similar potential reasons?
i remember reading somewhere that finger prints evolved to give humans better grip on wet objects, but that was a long tome ago and they’ve probably changed their minds by now
I remember reading that info too. But you are right, someone will have decided it ain’t the case by now I reckon.
buffy said:
stumpy_seahorse said:
monkey skipper said:
Do my finger prints enhance my capacity to grasp objects by having peaks and troughs on the surface areas of my hands and for that matter do foot prints enhance capacity for traction for similar potential reasons?
i remember reading somewhere that finger prints evolved to give humans better grip on wet objects, but that was a long tome ago and they’ve probably changed their minds by now
I remember reading that info too. But you are right, someone will have decided it ain’t the case by now I reckon.
Now I think about it, it might have been why your fingers go pruney in water that i’m getting confused with..
No, I think it was the extra surface area thing of a non smooth surface.
Some science:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17300-get-a-grip-truth-about-fingerprints-revealed.html#.VXygDMIVgqQ
Current thing is that the fingerprints make the skin slipperier.
buffy said:
stumpy_seahorse said:
monkey skipper said:
Do my finger prints enhance my capacity to grasp objects by having peaks and troughs on the surface areas of my hands and for that matter do foot prints enhance capacity for traction for similar potential reasons?
i remember reading somewhere that finger prints evolved to give humans better grip on wet objects, but that was a long tome ago and they’ve probably changed their minds by now
I remember reading that info too. But you are right, someone will have decided it ain’t the case by now I reckon.
Yes, Dr K wrote a revised hypothesis in his book Curiouser and Curiouser. OTTOMH no idea what it was.
Thanks …we develop finger prints in uterio and develop different types of finger prints but similar basic designs I think
buffy said:
No, I think it was the extra surface area thing of a non smooth surface.
It is as much about cooling than anything.
the great apes also many lesser primates also have digit prints.
Arts said:
the great apes also many lesser primates also have digit prints.
As the hands are the most sensitive part of our body, having more nerve ending than elsewhere. May it possibly be that our fingerprints are part of this and perhaps add to the hands sensitivity.