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....to make and manipulate tools and to masturbate furiously

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8459572.stm

The team reports in the journal Evolution that changes in our hands and fingers were a side-effect of changes in the shape of our feet.

This, they say, shows that the capacity to stand and walk on two feet is intrinsically linked to the emergence of stone tool technology.

The scientists used a mathematical model to simulate the changes.

Other researchers, though, have questioned this approach.

Campbell Rolian, a scientist from the University of Calgary in Canada who led the study, said: "This goes back to Darwin's The Descent of Man.

"[Charles Darwin] was among the first to consider the relationship between stone tool technology and bipedalism.

"His idea was that they were separate events and they happened sequentially - that bipedalism freed the hand to evolve for other purposes.

"What we showed was that the changes in the hand and foot are similar developments... and changes in one would have side-effects manifesting in the other."

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