Unlike humans and most Old World monkeys, their thumbs are not opposable (except for some Cebids).

Since the majority of animals lack opposable thumbs, the fine motor skills required for use in most gaming is unavailable to these animals.

It's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that got our species out of the trees and into the shopping mall.

Moore's law made computing cheap so cheap we can weigh the life of an individual insect and decide thumbs up or thumbs down.

For instance, Lord NcNair does not believe that it is opposable by virtue of estoppel.

If you like that one, or don't like it, you do thumbs up and thumbs down. Over time it tailors the songs so that it completely stops playing bad songs.

Thumbs up to soldiers who let us walk in peace. Cairo, Egypt.

Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.

But Adoni Bezek fled and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

But Adoni bezek fled and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Stalin had created a command economy that emphasized heavy manufacturing and smokestack industries, making it highly inflexible all thumbs and no fingers.

So, what he found is that in all cases of thumb mutations, instead of having a thumb, you would either get another opposable thumb, or you would get four fingers.

These are the people that define the requirements of the technology, and these are the people that have to give the thumbs up at the end, and say, Yeah, it actually works. It meets our needs.

Adoni Bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, scavenged under my table as I have done, so God has requited me. They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

The Soviet economy s decline, meanwhile, reflected the diminished ability of central planning to respond to global economic change. Stalin had created a command economy that emphasized heavy manufacturing and smokestack industries, making it highly inflexible all thumbs and no fingers.

And Adoni bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

With Serbia at the helm, the Council, which aims to promote human rights and the rule of law, is now overseen by a state that thumbs its nose at the Genocide Convention and harbors an indicted war crimes suspect, former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic.

The memo cites a female interrogator rubbing lotion on a shackled detainee and whispering in his ear during Ramadan when sexual contact with a strange woman would be most offensive then suddenly bending back his thumbs until he grimaced in pain, and violently grabbing his genitals.

References Further reading External links Thrombocytopenia Absent Radii research study of Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes (IBMFS) GeneReview NCBI NIH UW entry on Thrombocytopenia Absent Radius Syndrome These are the opinions of a young American woman who has TAR syndrome, ulnas and thumbs present (as opposed to absent).

We economists know that there are many drawbacks to expanding government beyond its basic role of providing true public goods like defense, public safety, and justice, as well as providing citizens with incentives to counterbalance the effects of true market failures. If the private market has the flexibility of two hands, government bureaucracy has at best two thumbs.