Hand of whether the three digits of the bird hand involved the same homologous loss of two digits as in the dinosaur hand. The human hand normally has five digits: four fingers plus one thumb; these are often referred to collectively as five fingers, however, whereby the thumb is included as one of the fingers. It has 27 bones, not including the sesamoid bone, the number of which varies between people, 14 of which are the phalanges (proximal, intermediate and distal) of the fingers and thumb. The metacarpal bones connect the fingers and the carpal bones of the wrist. Each human
Bones Are Forever pages long after lights out to find out what happens next." but that the forensic details provide by Reiches meant some scenes "drag like a science textbook". "Entertainment Weekly" gave the novel a B-, saying that "If you can get past the lab jargon" the novel was a "decent detective yarn". "The Irish Independent" called it a "genuinely gripping tale" that is "peppered with authentic forensic science and peopled with well drawn, rounded characters." "Publishers Weekly" said that Reichs had delivered a "pulse-pounding story". Bones Are Forever Bones are Forever is the fifteenth novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist