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	<title>Comments on: Proven: Pruney Fingers Give You a Better Grip</title>
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		<title>By: C deRenzo Pearson</title>
		<link>http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/01/proven-pruney-fingers-give-you-a-better-grip/comment-page-1/#comment-10694</link>
		<dc:creator>C deRenzo Pearson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David, thank you for the explanation.  It actually has helped my brain (that other wrinkled part of our bodies) to wrap around the concept that we wrinkle for wreasons!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David, thank you for the explanation.  It actually has helped my brain (that other wrinkled part of our bodies) to wrap around the concept that we wrinkle for wreasons!!!</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
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		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The reason why skin on the fingers go prune is that this skin, together with the skin of the toes and the penis, is that these areas of glabrous skin...I.e. skin without hair. This means that there are also no sebaceous glands, which are glands associated with hairs and produce sebum, which is an oily substance which nourishes hairs and also renders the skin relatively impervious to water absorption. So in fact the skin does swell from water absobtion, while wrinkly pattern is due to the layout of fibrous bands which tether the skin in the pattern observed. Whether this helps significantly in the grasp is at best moot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reason why skin on the fingers go prune is that this skin, together with the skin of the toes and the penis, is that these areas of glabrous skin&#8230;I.e. skin without hair. This means that there are also no sebaceous glands, which are glands associated with hairs and produce sebum, which is an oily substance which nourishes hairs and also renders the skin relatively impervious to water absorption. So in fact the skin does swell from water absobtion, while wrinkly pattern is due to the layout of fibrous bands which tether the skin in the pattern observed. Whether this helps significantly in the grasp is at best moot.</p>
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		<title>By: Rodney Porter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rodney Porter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have my found when my fingers go pruney and very soft to the point of peeling off,would be no help in catching food or picking up difficult objects.Hence I feel theory needs further investegation.I don&#039;t agree with the idea!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have my found when my fingers go pruney and very soft to the point of peeling off,would be no help in catching food or picking up difficult objects.Hence I feel theory needs further investegation.I don&#8217;t agree with the idea!</p>
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		<title>By: Alien Ancestor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alien Ancestor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Matt,

Cricket was close, what we actually did was modify our /alien-human hybrid/ bodies to better suit SBDN7-3&#039;s, or as you would say, &quot;earth&#039;s,&quot; watery environment.  

Believe me, before us your race was destined for failure.  By the way, Sasquatch?  That was us too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt,</p>
<p>Cricket was close, what we actually did was modify our /alien-human hybrid/ bodies to better suit SBDN7-3&#8242;s, or as you would say, &#8220;earth&#8217;s,&#8221; watery environment.  </p>
<p>Believe me, before us your race was destined for failure.  By the way, Sasquatch?  That was us too.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/01/proven-pruney-fingers-give-you-a-better-grip/comment-page-1/#comment-8437</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cricket,

As opposed to a &quot;theory&quot; along the lines of &quot;God created everything?&quot;  Look up the word &quot;theory&quot; as it applies to science.  You&#039;re confused.  Read the study.  It&#039;s even hyperlinked for you, and clearly gives more information than can be presented in a summary article.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cricket,</p>
<p>As opposed to a &#8220;theory&#8221; along the lines of &#8220;God created everything?&#8221;  Look up the word &#8220;theory&#8221; as it applies to science.  You&#8217;re confused.  Read the study.  It&#8217;s even hyperlinked for you, and clearly gives more information than can be presented in a summary article.</p>
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		<title>By: Truman North</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truman North</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Better grip- that&#039;s why it feel better in the shower. 

Thanks, Science!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Better grip- that&#8217;s why it feel better in the shower. </p>
<p>Thanks, Science!</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The presuposition that wrinkles help grasp wet objects, so evolution evolved this response is rather thin to the point of being idiotic.  

First, for nature to cause such adaptation to occure, the need, to grasp wet obects like a fish or wet vegetables, the need must be so great that those original people who had the adaptation, were so able to out perform their non-wrinkly bretherin, that it gave their decendants a singnifican&#039;t advantage, thus allowing their offsriong to be more successful than non-wrinkly humans, and so eventually replace them.  That is unlikely because;

Secondly, it requires that ancient peoples be evolving in a VERY WET environment, thus causeing the wet grip fingers to be a necessity for survival.  There is no evidence that ancient people had any need for this adaptation.  While they obviously lived around rivers and lakes so that they had access to fresh drinking water, there are no great pits filled with fish bones yet found to suggest that this grip was a singnificant factor in their lives.  

I&#039;ve seen people catch cat-fish with their bare hands, so this method may well have been used to some extent, however, the lack of substantial quantities of fish bones in ancient encampments that have been found, show clearly that fish was not on their diet much.  Ergo it is unlikely that nature would have adapted puckered fingers to adapt to a need they didn&#039;t significan&#039;t have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The presuposition that wrinkles help grasp wet objects, so evolution evolved this response is rather thin to the point of being idiotic.  </p>
<p>First, for nature to cause such adaptation to occure, the need, to grasp wet obects like a fish or wet vegetables, the need must be so great that those original people who had the adaptation, were so able to out perform their non-wrinkly bretherin, that it gave their decendants a singnifican&#8217;t advantage, thus allowing their offsriong to be more successful than non-wrinkly humans, and so eventually replace them.  That is unlikely because;</p>
<p>Secondly, it requires that ancient peoples be evolving in a VERY WET environment, thus causeing the wet grip fingers to be a necessity for survival.  There is no evidence that ancient people had any need for this adaptation.  While they obviously lived around rivers and lakes so that they had access to fresh drinking water, there are no great pits filled with fish bones yet found to suggest that this grip was a singnificant factor in their lives.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen people catch cat-fish with their bare hands, so this method may well have been used to some extent, however, the lack of substantial quantities of fish bones in ancient encampments that have been found, show clearly that fish was not on their diet much.  Ergo it is unlikely that nature would have adapted puckered fingers to adapt to a need they didn&#8217;t significan&#8217;t have.</p>
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		<title>By: Ken Royall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken Royall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have never heard a satisfactory explanation of how an &quot;advantage&quot; like pruned fingers can be made to happen by the human body for the sole reason it is an advantage. 

It implies some sort of intelligence beyond what the brain does is at work. For example when evolutionists say things like &quot;eyes evolved from light sensitive pits in the skin&quot; or something similar, I say so what? Why were the pits light sensitive to begin with? 

Just because it is nice to have eyes doesn&#039;t mean they can just &quot;appear&quot; over time. Why not have a pair in the back of our heads too, that would come in handy I&#039;m sure. It would be nice to have wings too but humans will never have them. I don&#039;t care how many trees we may fall out of.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never heard a satisfactory explanation of how an &#8220;advantage&#8221; like pruned fingers can be made to happen by the human body for the sole reason it is an advantage. </p>
<p>It implies some sort of intelligence beyond what the brain does is at work. For example when evolutionists say things like &#8220;eyes evolved from light sensitive pits in the skin&#8221; or something similar, I say so what? Why were the pits light sensitive to begin with? </p>
<p>Just because it is nice to have eyes doesn&#8217;t mean they can just &#8220;appear&#8221; over time. Why not have a pair in the back of our heads too, that would come in handy I&#8217;m sure. It would be nice to have wings too but humans will never have them. I don&#8217;t care how many trees we may fall out of.</p>
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		<title>By: Cricket</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cricket</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A nice article, marred by the  gratuitous reference to the evolutionary &quot;explanation&quot;.  A theory that can be made to explain everything does not explain anything.  It makes as much  sense as saying &quot;further evidence of our alien ancestors having self-modified their bodies to better suit earth&#039;s watery environment&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A nice article, marred by the  gratuitous reference to the evolutionary &#8220;explanation&#8221;.  A theory that can be made to explain everything does not explain anything.  It makes as much  sense as saying &#8220;further evidence of our alien ancestors having self-modified their bodies to better suit earth&#8217;s watery environment&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At 82 I notice my finger tips get &quot;pruney&quot; later in the day and it is not due to putting them in water for 30 minutes, so probably it has more to do with constriction of blood vessels, at least at a certain age.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At 82 I notice my finger tips get &#8220;pruney&#8221; later in the day and it is not due to putting them in water for 30 minutes, so probably it has more to do with constriction of blood vessels, at least at a certain age.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr.Martin Weinstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr.Martin Weinstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Many years ago I published a letter to Lancet about skin wrinkling.It appeared to be less in the non dominant hand probably from less use.Also it is necessary for an intact nerve supply(not autonomic)and its absence may indicate neuropathy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many years ago I published a letter to Lancet about skin wrinkling.It appeared to be less in the non dominant hand probably from less use.Also it is necessary for an intact nerve supply(not autonomic)and its absence may indicate neuropathy.</p>
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		<title>By: Beocon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Beocon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe it&#039;s nature&#039;s way of saying &quot;You&#039;ve been in the water too long.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe it&#8217;s nature&#8217;s way of saying &#8220;You&#8217;ve been in the water too long.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Maureen Meyerhoff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maureen Meyerhoff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This article has good observations, and good testing, but a flawed conclusion.  The evolution pat answer for the obvious intelligent design for fingers pruning in such a useful way is not proven by just seeing it work so well.  It shows more how our bodies have a wonderfully made design.  Evolution is not as likely for such a small difference in abilities.  The amazing display of this design having a function is another evidence for backing creationists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article has good observations, and good testing, but a flawed conclusion.  The evolution pat answer for the obvious intelligent design for fingers pruning in such a useful way is not proven by just seeing it work so well.  It shows more how our bodies have a wonderfully made design.  Evolution is not as likely for such a small difference in abilities.  The amazing display of this design having a function is another evidence for backing creationists.</p>
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		<title>By: john alexander</title>
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		<dc:creator>john alexander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank God for wet pruney fingers.</description>
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		<title>By: Kandeda Trefil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kandeda Trefil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I notice this article didn&#039;t link with the Aquatic Ape theory of human evolution.  In my opinion, it should have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I notice this article didn&#8217;t link with the Aquatic Ape theory of human evolution.  In my opinion, it should have.</p>
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