Mercury
News, 23 March 2002:
Thumbs are the new fingers for GameBoy youth
The use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys
has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands,
according to a British Sunday newspaper.
New research carried out in nine cities around the
world shows that the thumbs of people under the age of
25 have taken over as the hand's most dextrous digit,
said The Observer.
...
``Discovering that the younger generation has taken
to using thumbs in a completely different way and are
instinctively using thumbs where the rest of us are
using our index fingers is particularly interesting.''