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Letter: The hand is the cutting edge of the mind

Published 1 April 2026

From Hilda Beaumont, Brighton, UK

The piece on hominid hand structure is fascinating and shows the evolutionary importance of the development of hands. Jacob Bronowski, in his book The Ascent of Man, captures this well with the sentence: “The hand is the cutting edge of the mind (21 February, p 32)

Issue no. 3589 published 4 April 2026

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