Submitted by houstoncouchguy t3_zo1kle in askscience
DeaddyRuxpin t1_j0lochd wrote
Reply to comment by mckulty in Geckos use Van Der Waals forces to stick to walls, but how do they let go? by houstoncouchguy
So it’s really very much like humans gripping something. Infants at birth already know how to curl their hand to wrap fingers around an object and grip it. No one had to teach us how to do that and our own learning just refined the process to make it more effective. The core grip coordination knowledge was already present at birth.
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