A paper by myself, Romann Weber, Ritesh Kotecha and Joseph Palazzo just appeared in Brain, Behavior and Evolution. It’s title is “Are Wet-Induced Wrinkled Fingers Primate Rain Treads?” We provide evidence that the wrinkle morphology on pruney fingers has the expected signature features for a drainage network, designed to efficiently squirt away water during grip.
The paper has, for a time, been given free access by the publisher.
News stories on our research have appeared widely, including Nature, NPR, MSNBC, Discovery, PBS News Hour, Gawker, NY Times, Washington Post, Innovation News Daily and FOX News. I also wrote a piece on it at Forbes, and another at WIRED UK.
Also… comics.
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Mark Changizi is Director of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision Revolution (Benbella Books) and the upcoming book Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man (Benbella Books).
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