The opposable thumb

I wonder why i wonder why

I wonder why i wonder

(Richard P. Feynman; Literary assignment in College

"Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman")

Sometimes when i am too lazy to work, i wonder. I wonder at this wonderful thing called the opposable thumb. As I type these words in my keyboard and see my thumb hitting on the spce bar repeatedly, I wonder whether technology would have made any progress had humans not had this opposable thumb. I see young people whip out their cell phones and start talking. i wonder how cell phones would have looked like if we did not have the opposable thumb. Would it have been big, would it have been small or even no existant. At home some one flips on channels using the remote. once again its the opposable thumb. I hop on to my bike and press the brakes. Once again i use my thumb. I injure my thumb and during my meals I am at a loss on how to eat. I could go on about how we use the thumb in our everyday life.The point is this is something we are born with. This we cannot change. This is what makes us humans. Humans do have a superior brain in the entire animal kingdom, but i wonder without the opposable thumb would the superior brain have helped ?

I wonder !