Now researchers from King’s College London (KCL) have found that the small bone, which is buried in ... may have helped in the transition from knuckle walking to standing upright on two legs.

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained ... fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking ...

Knuckle-bone shooting is a popular team-based game played in Mongolia. Teams of six to eight players flick thirty domino-like marble tablets on a smooth wooden surface towards a target of sheep ...