Sentences with phrase «grasping big toe»

Bring top food and top hand together, grasping big toe.

The anatomy also suggests that although this hominin walked upright, it moved awkwardly because of the grasping big toe.

Because it had substantially modified the other four toes for upright walking, even while retaining its grasping big toe, the Ardipithecus foot was an odd mosaic that worked for both upright walking and climbing in trees.

So around 1900 they are being reconstructed as ape men — stooping, hairy, grasping big toes and, you know, we know they are not like that.

Grasp your big toe of each foot with your pointer finger and thumb.

If you can bring your leg past vertical and easily grasp your big toe while keeping your legs straight and your shoulders on the floor, your hamstrings won't hamper you in Paripurna Navasana.

With the first and second finger and thumb, grasp the big toe of each foot.

Not exact matches

This bone, which is embedded within a tendon, facilitates the mechanical action of the fibularis longus, the primary muscle that draws in the big toe when the foot is grasping.

It lacks an arch and has an opposable, or grasping, big toe, like living apes, says Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio and the lead author of the new study, which appears online today in Nature.

I am nowadays more convinced than I formerly was by the arguments of the «obligate terrestrial school»; for example Latimer (1991) lists quite a number of features of the lower limb that resemble the human condition and no other, such as that the hallux (big toe) of A. afarensis is not abductable as would be required for grasping.

These feet also had grasping, gorilla - like big toes.

... the divergent big toe indicates some degree of prehensile grasping as in apes.

With your left hand, grasp the left big toe.

Your partner can grasp your wrist and wedge his / her big toe into the forward hip crease.

It was George Bataille who wrote about how the big toe distinguishes men from apes: «the function of the human foot consists in giving a firm foundation to the erection of which man is so proud (the big toe, ceasing to grasp branches, is applied to the ground on the same plane as the other toes).»