How to Create a OOAK polymer clay baby step by step tutorials + more: The grasping hand

Have you ever wonder why is it that babies are almost always sculpt with a grasping grip. Well according to Darwin's evolution theory our closest ancestors are monkeys. Can you imagine that Monkeys!
In the bellow pictures you are going to see monkeys grasping their mothers fur. Even though a human baby's grasp is not as strong as a baby monkey's or simian, the reflex suggest that this instinct is still present. Opening gently a newborns (i nfant) hands they will grasp their tiny hands around yours.
The Baby Grasping reflex start to disappear by about the 2nd month of life, this is due mainly because by the 2nd month a baby's brain is rapidly developing to become more of a human (more independent) :-).