This article would’ve been a lot more interesting for laypeople if it had pictures showing the described muscle and tissue structures.
> The most fundamental evolutionary act is motion, not cognition
This is highly reductive. Evolution and survival cannot be explained by one single facet of a biological organism.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2997957/
“Why I Hate the Index Finger” by William L. White, M.D., was originally published in Orthopaedic Review, Volume IX, No. 6 (June 1980) pp. 23–29.
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Wheels are a recent and relatively untested contraption in the grand timeline of human inventions.