{"id":402,"date":"2009-06-22T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=402"},"modified":"2009-06-22T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:16:48","slug":"purpose-of-fingerprints-is-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/purpose-of-fingerprints-is-questioned","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of Fingerprints Is Questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bumpy ridges on the tips of our fingers are an evolutionary mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long reasoned that fingerprints help humans grip objects by creating friction, since a few primates and tree-climbing koalas also have fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study found that if fingerprints help people grip things, it&#8217;s not because they create more friction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/090612-fingerprint-friction.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bumpy ridges on the tips of our fingers are an evolutionary mystery. Scientists have long reasoned that fingerprints help humans grip objects by creating friction, since a few primates and tree-climbing koalas also have fingerprints. But a new study found that if fingerprints help people grip things, it&#8217;s not because they create more friction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}