One of the key distinctions between primates and lower animals is that we have opposable thumbs.
Havng now endured a few days of trying to get a very small primate’s opposable thumbs into mittens, I no longer necessarily see this as being as big an advantage as I once did.

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January 7, 2006 at 9:54 am
Nana
Funny how being a parent makes you look at lots of things differently!