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IN NATURE of January 28, p. 157, Prof. Wood-Jones, in his description of the prehensile digit in the fore paw of the giant panda, stated that the radial sesamoid bone has a special muscular arrangement making it movable so as to act as a true thumb; it “usurps the place of the true thumb and simulates all its movements”.
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POCOCK, R. The Prehensile Paw of the Giant Panda. Nature 143, 206 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143206b0
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