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mafiaknight t1_j6kjadg wrote

That’s only half right. All muscles ARE controlled via electric impulse from the brain/nervous system, but it isn’t the “squeeze” command being given. ALL affected muscles are told to contract. Your hand has much stronger muscles for closing/gripping than for opening. (It has to overcome much greater force to hold things than to release them, so this makes perfect sense.)

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Veritas3333 t1_j6l78ob wrote

This is why it's so easy to hold a crocodile's mouth closed!

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