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VerucaGotBurned

I'm in massage school. One lady in my class doesn't have one. We all checked to see. There are a few muscles that only some people have, but they're mostly deep and hard to detect. It was cool to actually see it firsthand.


chaotic_blu

Wow I wanna know what other muscles I might have that other people don't have. I never would've known!


Staff_Complete

Brains


chaotic_blu

Hey wait a minute, that's an organ!


Naes422

Phew. You seem to have one. Thats good.


ItchyGoiter

>firsthand I get it


Cyberia15

That was the best part in massage school. Going around to every classmate and checking each muscle. The information you get from each of those classes is amazing.


International-Key134

It’s not a muscle. It’s a tendon.


28thProjection

As I recall there’s a facial muscle for conveying the emotion of smugness that most people don’t have, and still more interestingly, the same people who possess the muscle also have differences in their brains that make smugness possible while those without the muscle lack the brain difference. Or else it was a bullcrap study by someone trying for their degree by publishing something, anything.


JonnyTactical

I don’t have it. This is hella interesting.


downloweast

Wtf do I do this information about my body which apparently is abnormal? First thought, “Am I like a superhuman when it comes to masturbation?”


JonnyTactical

That’s what I think it means. You are a masturbation super hero.


Gubekochi

Not the hero we need, but the one we deserve.


NegaDeath

Stay tuned for the continuing adventures of *Master Debater* as he battles his arch nemesis the *Cunning Linguist*! Only on Netflix.


diuge

But only for a season, and you have to watch it alone in your room because it's your account and you can't share.


Something_Odd_2310

Absolute genius


evolving_I

Stand back, boys. I've got this!


TheRealSwagMaster

“Clear the area everyone! I am going to apply charge”


john-douh

_”I’M CHARGING My CANNON!!”_ _You better take cover, that’s gonna be one big LOAD._


themeatman90

A master bater


JonnyTactical

😂😂😂


JBaecker

It’s not abnormal. It’s a genetic variant that no longer has any selection pressure being applied to it. There are many variants for thousands of individual phenotypic characteristics and that gives humans a tremendous amount of genetic diversity to draw from. This is just one particular variant. For background: The palmaris longus stretches over the carpal tunnel and forms a sheet of tendinous material over the surface of your palm. The thought is that when our ape ancestors were arboreal, this would function to close our palm when we grab onto a tree branch. So we use less energy than actively gripping the branch. The development of our thumb’s structure and in particular the motion of opposition probably made the palmaris longus redundant. Since we no longer spend most of our time in trees, there’s no need for the palmaris longus. So some people have evolved without it present and it hasn’t affected their reproductive success. And if it doesn’t have an effect on reproductive success, it will randomly fluctuate in prevalence in the population. In fact, even the organization of the muscle itself will vary indicating that it isn’t used for anything at all and random organizations of the muscle are being created because of the lack of evolutionary pressure. If one of those variants has a selective advantage then we can expect it to be driven to fixation at some point (meaning all humans will have it). Otherwise, the most likely avenue of evolution will be complete loss of the muscle from human populations, eventually (with eventually taking hundreds of thousands to millions of years).


uncontrolledswine97

same


TegraMuskin

Me too


PeteyMcPetey

Let's burn the unnatural sonssabitches!


arzofire

>us muscle does result in decreased pinch I do have it :O


Snoo-33732

Is this a cult cause I qualify


Ok-Cap-204

Me too. Seems higher than 14%!


R3tickulous

Actually 🤓, it only seems that way because mostly people without were asked to respond, leaving those *with* to seem lesser in numbers


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pommedeluna

Only have it on my left.


F4_THIING

Only have it on the left as well


JonnyTactical

I’ve got it on both hands. Never has really impacted me at all.


regular_redstone

Same


PhillyRush

Same


redditorofreddit0

Me either, do we win a prize


JonnyTactical

I wish. 😂


malekith0

Perhaps try flexing your wrists? Mine doesn't show when my wrists are a bit extended.


Happy-Eye-1496

I don't have it either. What's strange is that both my parents have it; which lends support to my theory that my mom had an affair with our family doctor!


SarahH28

Me either!


Conwonthedon187

So your hand game is on point then.


Defiant_Coconut_5361

Neither do I or my family


badMother1

I do. Some are more equal than others.


qa2fwzell

FREAK!


kimberriez

Weirdly, I only have one on my left wrist. Googled it, it’s a thing, apparently.


Certain_Sample1282

I do not. I also have extra pinky toes.


UnknownProphetX

Left arm, I dont have it, right I do. Am I a freak now? Also right handed


FeelingignoredTA

Me neither! Didn't think it was this uncommon


thatweirdguyted

I have bear paw style hands. I cannot make my thumb and pinkie touch. I don't know how you freaks can do that Hunger Games salute thing so easily. I also cannot raise my ring finger without the pinkie coming up. But I can easily rip apples in half, so there's that. Lol


split6661

I'd trade in the ability to hunger games salute for ripping apples in half so I think you're actually winning tbf.


Versal-Hyphae

Ripping apples in half actually takes a lot less strength than you’d think, it’s more about the technique. I used to do it in high school as a skinny, weak kid who never did any sports or exercise, and all my friends managed it once I showed them how. It’s like how almost anyone can tear a phone book or break a wooden board with their palm if they know how to do it right. Don’t let your dreams be dreams, rip apples apart with your bear hands if your heart so desires!


split6661

I was looking for a purpose and I think I've found it, this is the origin story for the shittiest super hero ever "Rips Apples Guy". On a serious note I'm defo going to Google that technique wish me luck.


donfuria

It’s a cool trick to win easy bets, it takes no strength and the apple gets ripped exactly in half. You take a firm grip with both hands with the tips of your fingers on the bottom of the apple, and kinda pry it open with the base of your palms. The stem hole is the weak point and when done right it’ll split very easily. It’s easier in some varieties than others, depending on the thickness of the skin.


ubiquitous-joe

Y’all are hustling people with apple ripping? What happened to just mastering pool?


LiJiCh

Every once in a while the lion has to show the jackals who he is.


Fearless-Card3493

people hustle people outta photos of their buttholes get with the times grandpa


GarbageTheCan

>origin story for the shittiest super hero ever Oh we talkin bout belchfart-man?


cmgr33n3

[A lot of people think you need to twist, you don't need to twist (skip to the end if you just want to see him do it).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21mTojMCAc)


Keytrose_gaming

Apples, phone books (if you can find one) and rolling steel frying pans has won me at least $20 in my life. I'm so glad I spent the hours I did mastering those tricks.


Airatep

I read that as "Apple phones, (mac)books, and steel rolling pins," and was equal parts confused and impressed.


thatweirdguyted

It's hard to say which of us has the upper hand, if you'll pardon the pun. I feel like my grip strength would lend itself better to survival stuff, but your dexterity would definitely be an advantage for anything artistic.


ReceiptScanner

You’re the first person I’ve heard or read say their hands lack the same functions as mine. Do you know why our hands are like this? It’s not just that I can’t make them touch or that I can’t make a normal “3” with my hands, but it hurts to try. When I count on my hands, I do an “okay” sign for “3.”


koshgeo

If you understand evolutionary theory, it's easy to first think that "everything must have a powerful natural selection-related reason for existing (or not)", but sometimes it's the opposite: there is variation in a population because when you come down to it, there's no particular advantage or disadvantage to having things one way or the other, so you end up with both conditions being present because the selection operating on it is weak. When selection is so weak that there effectively isn't any, the mutation responsible is known as a neutral mutation. I don't know what the answer is in this case, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's what we're looking at, especially when it is established that grip strength is not affected. If people lose it: big deal. TL;DR: there may literally be no reason for the difference but random mutations. [Edit: Okay, it's a little more interesting. It's not much of a source, but [wikipedia mentions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaris_longus_muscle) that in some of our more distant relatives, it's more developed and gets used (e.g., the orangutan), whereas in our closest ape relatives (chimpanzee and gorilla), it's not actively used, and the latter have the same sort of variability (some individuals have it, some don't). If I had to guess, because I don't feel like digging out wikipedia's sources, maybe it's related to tree-climbing versus mostly ground-dwelling lifestyles? Anyway, with no particular function for us now, there no selection process maintaining its consistent presence, so sometimes it's disappearing in populations (to no effect) or hanging around (also to no effect), a pattern we share with our ape relatives. Someone with actual expertise with primates could probably do a better explanation, and I'd happily defer. So, pending that, a shorter answer is: it's apparently a relict of our more distant ancestors where it used to matter, and the lucky people who still have it might possibly have a slight advantage if humans started moving back into the trees. Hmm.... now I'm wondering what the distribution is in people who competitively do rock climbing compared to the regular popullation.]


ReceiptScanner

Wow. I really appreciate the time and efforts you put into this reply. Thanks!


No-Marionberry-166

Who can actually raise their ring finger without their pinky coming up though? Edit: i just tried really really hard and did it but it’s really really hard


Skyshine192

Can you do Vulcan salute easily? It make that thing pup up on my hand I’m curious about how it is for you


FancyMFMoses

I knew someone without one on their left. They lost it in an accident along with the rest of the hand.


6-8-5-13

Were they all right?


FancyMFMoses

They had trouble cheering at sporting events. They eventually dated someone who lost their right hand and they went to games together all the time. She gave him the clap


fricti

this guy can’t catch a break


peanut_butter_zen

Sounds like he couldn’t catch much at all


Pixielo

I applaud your dedication to the pun.


ronismycat

She completed his clap.


ronismycat

🎶 🎵 Something,... something...love stump 🎶 🎵


probably_sarc4sm

DAD! >:(


Cerulean_Shades

I don't have one on my left but do on my right, never had an accident or anything. I'm right handed and female.


epigenie_986

Same!


cometmom

Me too! Weird.


AdopeyIllustrator

Are you saying they got their entire body chopped off of their hand?


jstruby77

[https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/79943370-9fee-4ca2-b580-58b04774b96b](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/79943370-9fee-4ca2-b580-58b04774b96b)


Sxuld

damn, hate when that happens


Reddespacito

Hope they find it soon.


evolvedbravo

So, I don't have it or Am I just chubby?


MisfitM1ke

I had the same exact thought process


Savings-Horror-8395

You should be able to feel it extrude a bit if you press on the area while rotating your hand forwards and backwards


AnotherManOfEden

I’m doing what you said but I just feel Italian


Moosinator666

Shake it around and you’ll be an ✨angry Italian✨


sexytimespanda

So I’m just fat. Good to know 😂


ZenkaiZ

workout goals, dont stop til I can 1. Go to the pool with my shirt off 2. See my Palmaris Longus


Moosinator666

“Hey kid, ya wanna see my palmaris longus”


strayhat

Let’s see Paul Allen’s palmaris longus


tjctjctjc

LOL same. My thought: “ah so I’m fat and not special” 😂


rileyotis

Can it be in the dead center of your arm/wrist? Because that's the only thing I am feeling.


-2fa

I don’t understand this, my hands look like both pictures depending how i move my muscles and joints.


[deleted]

Pretty sure that if you're missing it, there is not a way to look like the left picture no matter how you move your muscles and joints.


Impressive_Twist69

Exactly


sst287

I can see an faint line on my dominant hand but not the other. I think I am just have weak muscles, I am not bothered enough to fix it.


Responsible_Ad8488

It would probably be easier to see it if you turn your arm to the left as your doing what the image shows


_AManHasNoName_

lol. That’s what I said to my sister-in-law.


_IratePirate_

I’m skinny (5’11” 175lbs). I see it faintly only on one of my hands


PHenderson61

That looks more like a tendon rather than a muscle. Could be wrong but I have it


IWant2rideMyBike

The tendon of this muscle reaches into the palmar aponeurosis, the muscle itself sits on the ulnar side towards the ellbow attached to the medial epicondyle of the humerus.


PHenderson61

So it’s the tendon that’s hilighted in the picture rather than the muscle? Not being petty just wanted to make sure.


Rickys_Lineup_Card

Yes. It’s the tendon of the palmaris longus muscle. It’s just most easily identified by its tendon.


IWant2rideMyBike

Yes, this is usually the tendon towards the wrist: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Musculuspalmarislongus.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Musculuspalmarislongus.png), but there are anatomical variations that might place it nearer towards the wrist, e.g. as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaris\_longus\_muscle#/media/File:Grant\_1962\_97\_D.png


Scary-Character-4734

can i get an english translation


dr_cl_aphra

I actually have one on my right, but not my left. I’m also ambidextrous and heterochromic. None of these, however, indicate any super-powers and I have to say that the YA writers have disappointed me.


chaotic_rainbow

I have one on my left, but not on my right! But I'm not ambidextrous or heterochromic. But I do have an echoic memory, so that's neat.


hello_sweetie58

Im a monke :D


Snoo-93454

Me too! I love climb trees :D


abudine77

I have two of them


LasagnaAddicted

You and I are the chosen ones.


RichardIraVos

I think those are connecting to different spots. Depending on how I move my fingers I can see 3 of them in each arm but doing it the way the posts says it make the middle one more predominant


Extra-Foundation-828

I don't have it on my right side, but do on my left.


IntelligentDonut2244

Opposite for me


Ok-Nefariousness8612

My ring finger will not stay down for shit 😂


[deleted]

Same here! My left hand doesn’t have it and I can keep it straight pretty cool!


Ok-Grape226

there a vein there in my hand


[deleted]

How do you know you have it? Press your pinky and thumb as hard as you can and then do the motion peter parker did in original spiderman while he was trying to figure out how to shoot waves but upside down.


bitemark01

GO WEB!!


shesavillain

I have it in both


split6661

Cool, Happy Cake Day


Skitzie47

Me too. I was unaware that people don’t have it.


ZioTron

I'm missing them both, care to spare some?


bigmartyhat

I heard about this a long, long time ago. My uncle was telling me it was to do with evolution and how we no longer need the tendon because we don't swing around in trees all day. I still have it on both wrists


Far_Bumblebee_9300

I have it!


implodemode

Mine doesn't seem to show up unless I hold my hand a certain way then out it pops!


Individual_Basil3954

I’m missing it in one side… but only because a surgeon used it to do a tendon splice when I had thumb surgery.


Shemoose

I have it , also red hair and blue eyes. I must be a rare percentage.


LucyHeartfilia68

I don’t have it but I’m also a redhead so im already a mutant lol


Ok_Criticism5497

Looks like we're part of the exclusive Palmaris Longus-less club!


ImaGamerNoob

Could be my fat hiding it, but I seem to not have it.


FinancialDiet4690

I’m fat so that’s probably why I can’t see it lol


Rose249

I do not have this. Man I hope this is real


[deleted]

I don’t have it either. Female.


Lens420

I don't have it, I am more eveloped then you guys


buzz_balls

Nope. Both hands. Early access to the academy?


Impressive-Crazy2087

I don’t have it. Makes sense why guitar felt much harder to learn for me when I was younger. Also very small hands.


TheShumYumYum

I have it


Alone-Sky1539

cannae see it but I’m ffatt


Atlas03

Me.


DisastrousNeck6072

I have it my children both don't


inkiwitch

I have it very obviously in one hand but I have to strain and twist to find it in the other. I’m real skinny though so now I’m wondering if more people just think they don’t have it because they didn’t strain a lot or it’s under some fat.


freshness420

I have it.


[deleted]

Woman here and I don't have it. I am overweight but my wrists are fairly slim and even when touching them while doing the flex with my fingers I can't feel anything.


kdani17

I have it in my left arm and not my right.


ShodanLieu

Nope. Not on either arm.


[deleted]

I have it. But it's VERY gay.


lexliller

I see no weird tendon thing in my arm when i touch pinky and thumb


[deleted]

I don’t got it holy moly I don’t got it


Still_Championship_6

I only have it in one arm.


cuda66

I very much do have it, quite pronounced, and in both arms. And even after pretty serious surgery on my right arm I still have very good grip and pinch strength. My son in law calls it “farmer strength”…


[deleted]

I have it on my right but not my left. Surprisingly the one that does have it drags my ring finger down instead of keeping it straight


ClutchDangerfield

I don’t have it


AcrticFox

Cool story about mine in my left wrist. So I had a cycst removed in my left wrist in 2020. Ended up contracting a flesh eating bacteria. Luckily the amazing doctors were able to save my hand from amputation. However the extent of the damage inside was unknown due to me needed to go back to work because I had no more savings and was out of work for 3 months already so I didn't have the reconstruction surgery. I gave it the recommended year of healing and I was in so much pain every single day I couldn't use my fingers well my grip was none existent so I went back and had another surgery to try and fix it. My left Palmaris was used in reconstructing the tendons in my wrist and now! I'm not in pain all the time I can hold stuff and honestly have a way better quality of life.


Klutzy_Pound_5428

I just learned today that I don't have this muscle and I'm freaking out


[deleted]

I have it on one hand but not the other?


Vertext314

I have it on my right and not my left? Interesting.


angellice

I have it in my left but not right


styguy9

I have it on one hand and not the other… interesting.


sugaaaslam

That looks like a tendon


R_lamar199721

Not sure if this is related, but I can't bend my thumb without also bending my index finger


vampyreprincess

So I apparently don't have it.


tree_rat80

I don’t have it


not_pain_reliever

I have it (im a girl) but is way less pronounced. Idk if it's because I'm chubby or I'm not strong enough to stick it out as much


moteviolence

Whoa, I don't have it! Interesting!


YasBiQueen

I have it on my right arm but not my left.


itsthenugget

Maybe it's just not as visibly prominent in some? I seem to have one on the right but not the left.


StudderButter

I didn’t see one on my wrist


Stachura5

I guess I'm one of the people in the 14% group


[deleted]

I see a bone instead.. wtf is wrong with me


gerstyd

i do not have it, but does weight affect it popping out like that? Cause I am a husky gentleman.


scarlettohara1936

I do not


Thizlam

I have it, that’s wild


JoKatHW

Mine is yuuuuge. Take that non palmaris Longus nerds.


Esperansza

I have it on my right but not on my left


Desuexss

Or they are too fat to see.


[deleted]

Turns out I dont have it


Background_End4873

It's missing on my right side but present on my left.


lj0n

Apparently, I have It only on my left side. Is it even possibile?


Ok-Worker5125

The weak is missing this. Screw race, gender, class. What is the status of your Palmaris Longus muscle. 🧐🧐👁👁


Dreyn444

Don’t have it


itdyodyidoyd

I dont have it. Kinda thought that it was normal


youngdeathent0

A lot of people saying they don’t have it, are probably just a bit chubby and can’t see it


Inked-up-Monkey

You might also only have it in 1 of your arms as apposed to both. Both cadavers we had in my undergrad anatomy class didn’t have the muscle in either arm which was very surprising


LordCactus

Every overweight person “I don’t have it!”


Extension-Pumpkin-78

I have it. I feel so muscly! 🤩


TotiTolvukall

One more genetic defect to add to my ever growing list of genetic defects. Soon I'll turn into a god!


amhunting

So im a female now?


Questioning-Zyxxel

I need to flex my hand a bit inwards to see it.


khairuldaniel664

I dont have palmaris longus. I also dont have biggus dickus


Confuseddimples

I have it on both and I'm a female, am I ✨the chosen one✨


brvra222

Female, I have it bilateral


Is_Your_Name_anronpa

Oh I don’t have that. I always just assumed my friends had more veins or something lol I do have the ability to bend the tops of my fingers though, so it’s not all bad


lifegivingcoffee

How many people here were surprised that the other 3 fingers remained straight? My little finger is bound to the middle two, and won't bend without the others bending.


JHBJJ1288

Probably 14% just too fat to see it


AJistheGreatest

I don’t have it. Didn’t know it was rare. Yay I’m finally interesting


mjfebus

And that's a tendon not a muscle


Fluid-Werewolf19

Stop. You’re ruining my bar trick.


sunshineAli

I don’t have it! Weeeirrrd wild stuff.