{"id":719,"date":"2012-12-23T20:38:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karate.gregoryzone.org\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-12-23T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T01:38:29","slug":"did-human-hands-evolve-for-making-fists-no-probably-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Did human hands evolve for making fists? (No, probably not)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomicron.evolverzone.com\/2012\/12\/another-just-so-story-this-time-about-fists\/\">Genomicron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}