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five fingers running the biggest cortex map in your brain like it owns the place.
means The part of the body at the end of the arm, made of a palm, four fingers, and a thumb, used for grasping, touching, and manipulating things.
from From Old English 'hond' or 'hand,' a thoroughly Germanic word — its cousins crowd the family tree, with Dutch and German both keeping 'hand' to this day. Its deeper origin is murky; one suggestion ties it to a root meaning 'to seize' or 'to grasp,' which would be fitting, but that link is uncertain. What's solid is its age: this is one of those bedrock body-words that's been steady on Germanic tongues for as long as we can trace them.
- brain hog
- Hands claim huge real estate in the motor cortex
- bone count
- 27 bones per hand, 54 for both
- no muscles
- Fingers have none; tendons pull them like puppets
- opposable thumb
- Made tools, fire, and every cathedral possible
- unique grip
- Fingerprints form in the womb, never repeat