Did human hands evolve for making fists? (No, probably not).
by Ryan Gregory, December 23rd, 2012You may have seen the media reports about a study purporting to show evidence that the unique proportions of the human hand evolved in order to facilitate the making of a strong fist. As an evolutionary biologist as well as a karateka, I felt it was my responsibility to debunk this silly study, which I have attempted to do over at my science blog Genomicron.