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Why Do Primates Have a Mobile Foot?
A human foot has 26 individual bones in it. That means a quarter of your skeleton is made of foot bones. The bones that we have in our foot, those are the exact same 26 bones that chimpansy has. They're just tweaked a little bit. And that converts our foot from a grasping organ like a chimpaz into one that can push off the ground. It can act as more of a lever.
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