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Did human hands evolve to fight or make tools?

Researchers believe it may be the former, and our hands are the way they are because nature wanted humans to fight!

Compared with apes, humans have shorter palms and fingers, and stronger, longer, flexible thumbs.

And while the old theory is that this happened in order for humans to make tools, new research suggests it may also have occurred for violent reasons.

Here's what a researcher said:

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