

Why our skin wrinkles in water | Opinion
2022.12.04 23:00
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The pruning up of fingertips when we bathe or swim is a phenomenon of the human body that is so common and yet little understood. Despite many decades of scientific inquiry, until recently, the reasoning remained elusive. A common belief was that the wrinkling of wet skin was caused by osmosis. But a definitive study in 2011 turned the enigma of “wet-induced wrinkles” from a passive, purely chemical reaction of water molecules into an interesting evolutionary idea—what if pruney skin was an adaptation that gave our ancestors a better grip in wet conditions? This article was produced by the Ind...
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