{"id":1182,"date":"2011-07-02T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/do-wrinkled-fingers-help-us-grip\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T03:04:00","slug":"do-wrinkled-fingers-help-us-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/do-wrinkled-fingers-help-us-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Do wrinkled fingers help us grip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/t9Sfg8O-o24\/do-wrinkled-fingers.html\">Do wrinkled fingers help us grip?<\/a>: &#8220;<em>&#8216;Wet fingers and toes eventually wrinkle, and this is commonly attributed by lay opinion to local osmotic reactions. However, nearly a century ago surgeons observed that no wrinkling occurs if a nerve to the finger has been cut. Here we provide evidence that, rather than being an accidental side effect of wetness, wet-induced wrinkles have been selected to enhance grip in wet conditions.&#8217;<\/em> \u2014 From <a href=\"http:\/\/content.karger.com\/ProdukteDB\/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&#038;ArtikelNr=328223&#038;Ausgabe=0&#038;ProduktNr=223831&#038;filename=328223.pdf\">&#8216;Are Wet-Induced Wrinkled Fingers Primate Rain Treads?,&#8217; <\/a>a recently-published paper co-authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MarkChangizi\">Mark Changizi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=41c18c4b5b8ed0dffc4ff5f47b3ac1c0&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=41c18c4b5b8ed0dffc4ff5f47b3ac1c0&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/amch.questionmarket.com\/adsc\/d887846\/17\/909940\/adscout.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/t9Sfg8O-o24\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do wrinkled fingers help us grip?: &#8220;&#8216;Wet fingers and toes eventually wrinkle, and this is commonly attributed by lay opinion to local osmotic reactions. However, nearly a century ago surgeons observed that no wrinkling occurs if a nerve to the finger has been cut. Here we provide evidence that, rather than being an accidental side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-j4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}