Analysis of early human bone fossils reveals adaptations for climbing trees and manipulating stones millions of years ago.

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too.Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on different parts of ...

Early Human Ancestors Used Their Hands to Both Climb Trees and Make Tools ... in hand function where you start off with more ‘ape-like’ and end up more ‘human-like,’” said Smithsonian ...