Hand (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Hand

Caption

The right hand skeleton of the adult female MH2 against a modern human hand. The hand, seen here in palmar view, lacks three wrist bones and four terminal phalanges, but is otherwise complete.

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[Picture by: Peter Schmid. Picture courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand]

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