PANDA’S THUMB. “Botched jobs are common, in fact. The classic example is the panda’s thumb, which it uses to grasp bamboo. “The panda’s true thumb is committed to another role. So the panda must…settle for an enlarged wrist bone and a somewhat clumsy, but quite workable, solution,” wrote Stephen Jay Gould in 1978.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022