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An anatomical illustration of the human hand and wrist bones from a dorsal view, showing labeled carpal bones, metacarpal bones, and the proximal, middle, and distal phalanges of each finger.

Illustration showing two types of human hand grips: a power grip holding a stick with the whole hand and a precision grip holding a small object between the thumb and fingertips.

Two northern white-cheeked gibbons (Nomascus leucogenys), one dark-furred male and one lighter-furred female, sit on a tree branch with long arms extended overhead for balance. A scale bar shows their approximate size.

Side-by-side anatomical illustrations compare the bones of a primitive carpus and a human carpus, highlighting the carpal, metacarpal, and phalange bones in different colors, with labels for each bone group.

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human and gorilla hands compared

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