Saturday, August 24, 2019
Why Do We Wrinkle When Wet?
Why do your fingers and toes get wrinkly when they’ve been in the water too long? Short answer: Your nerves. Longer answer: Evolution.
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My fingers literally are like that in two minutes
ReplyDeleteSo we can feel old
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ReplyDeleteSo people with CIPA don't wrinkle?
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ReplyDeletewhen your hand is actually wrinklely rn so thats why it keeps doing this
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ReplyDeleteI just found this..my hand hurt if longer in water😧😧😧
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ReplyDeleteour fingers aren't wrinkled all the time because they look less sexier
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ReplyDeleteyeah I knew about the fact of osmoises
ReplyDeleteActually, the reason our fingers get wrinkles on them is because say your in a pool, and you know how humans are mostly water? Well ok so if There is more water in one place and then the other area with less water is keeping it from going with the other area is our skin, so the other area with less water sucks some of the water out of our body’s.
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Aquatic Ape Theory confirmed !
ReplyDeleteI just took a long shower and got really pruny hand but for some reason I feel as if pruned hand are fascinating to look at and stuff I feel as if I could stare at pruned hands for hours just me that does this?
ReplyDeleteSo I have a theory I'm gonna posit here now @scishow or for any numbskull reading this and bothering to give me the credibality of an average guy ... We get wrinkled fingers ... Also when sweating ... Noticed it in jiu jitsu and also noticed that gave me the ability to grip another fellow sweaty primate I'm rolling w ... So that's another factor that undeniably is a benefit in combat that some disntant progenitor 🙄 over for advantageously having when needed
ReplyDeleteIf the finger wrinkles after wet, then why does my back not wrinkle? I immigrated and I do not have a wrinkly back, but it's wet. Neither is the toilet plug wrinkly, but I clean Trump's toilet every day
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ReplyDeleteOver the summer, I swam over 3 hours a day. My fingers never got wrinkly throughout the whole summer. They also never got wrinkly when I took showers.
ReplyDeleteI came back after the 2 week break for the start of the winter season and the very first practice my fingers got wrinkly while swimming and during the break, in showers.
I don't know why, but I guess my skin adapted to my swimming somehow? I have no nerve damage. I know for sure that my fingers weren't wrinkly over the summer. I immediately notice if they are because it's such a weird feeling.
everyone always says wrinkled fingers and toes, but actually your palms and soles of your feet aldo wrinkle and so the theory that it helps us grip better would ve useless without considering the palms and soles of the feet because toes alone would not help you grip a wet surface because the rest of your foot would still slide on wet surfaces thats why the soles of the feet also wrinkle this allows us to get a better grip all the way wround and this also applies to the palms because we use our palms just as much as our fingers to grip objects. its a cool theory and it seems to hold up given the evidence. its just one of our amazing features that went unnoticed for a long time.
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im never sure whether i should be disappointed or proud of myself when a scishow video teaches me nothing new
ReplyDeleteI just took a shower
ReplyDeleteQuestion: So if this is why fingers are wrinkly, why are old people constantly wrinkly?
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ReplyDeletealso, why does chlorinated water seem to make it happen faster? I have a well, and when I take a shower my fingers usually don't wrinkle, whereas when I go to a pool or shower somewhere else, they do.
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ReplyDeletemy fingers are little bit wrinkled all the time
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ReplyDeleteIs that a bad thing
ReplyDeleteand i thought it has to do with osmosis
ReplyDeletelooks like the comment section has a dirty mind. and no, i did not think the thumbnail was anything other than a wrinkly finger. and yes, i went back to check
ReplyDeleteThumbs down for bringing your fairy tale religion of evolution into the explanation.
ReplyDeleteMy sisters fingers didn't wrinkle at all and we were both in the pool for the same time. They used to wrinkle but at some point they stopped and now no matter how long shes in water they don't. She can still feel her fingers and she's never had surgery on them so what's going on?
ReplyDeletelooks like a brain XD
ReplyDeleteOMG THIS HOST DRIVES ME NUTS he has those stupid earlobe stretcher things and that dumbass beard what the hell is that thing anyway and ... oh, that's right. It's Michael. We're only allowed to rip Olivia apart for equally weird personal oddities.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I'm kidding. I like ya, Michael. You keep being your weird self, it's charming -- just like when Olivia does it. :-)
The problem I have with this explanation is that the wrinkly skin would have to serve enough of an advantage that humans who didn't evolve this trait died out by natural selection. But it's hard to conceive that gripping wet things 12% better would result in humans without this trait dying off as a result.
ReplyDeleteThen again, it may be possible that this trait was present in our much earlier tree climbing ancestors, for whom better grip on wet surfaces can easily result in a significant increase in survival and reproductive success.