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Why The Human Shoulder Is A Design Disaster - Cheddar Explains

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January 11, 2022

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Shoulder injuries are one of the most common orthopedic injuries – and they're also one of the most commonly ignored. But chimpanzees, with whom we share nearly 99% of our DNA, don’t encounter the same issues we do. So why are human shoulders such a design disaster? Well, we can trace the answer back to a very particular moment in our evolution.

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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, Dr. Nathan Lents

www.amazon.com/Human-Errors-Panorama-Glitches-Pointless/dp/1328974693

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University of California, San Francisco

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