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ONE of the most noteworthy differences between man and the higher anthropoids is that while man has a good opposable thumb, in the anthropoid the thumb is somewhat degenerate. It was mainly on this character that Osborn decided that man could not have evolved from an anthropoid.
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BROOM, R., ROBINSON, J. Thumb of the Swartkrans Ape-Man. Nature 164, 841–842 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164841c0
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