In this week's Ask A Doer Dr. Richard explores Inigo's question: Why do we have 5 fingers on each hand and 5 toes on each foot? Jumping into human evolution, we will find why we didn't evolve to have 2 fingers or even 8 fingers on each hand!
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May 18, 2021 · Not counting thumbs, humans typically have 4 fingers per hand. · Yes, there are humans with more than 5 fingers (6 including a thumb). Although ...
The human hand usually has five digits: four fingers plus one thumb; these are often referred to collectively as five fingers, however, whereby the thumb is ...
Mar 28, 2024 · No, many quite distantly related ancestors of ours have a five digit foot/hand, referred to as pentadactyl Humans never had seven, I'm sorry ...
Mar 23, 2024 · 1.1K votes, 371 comments. Why do humans and similar animals have 5 fingers (or four fingers and a thumb) and not some other number?
Sep 10, 2023 · I think the biggest limitation is need. Your species needs a reason for 18 fingers on each hand. Something to drive evolution that way.
Human hands contain fourteen digital bones, also ... Each of the fingers has three joints: ... Fingers do not contain muscles (other than arrector pili).
Aug 27, 2019 · First there is no reason you can't have eight fingers per hand the early terrestrial vertebrates had 9. But you don't want that so how about ...
Jun 16, 2007 · We have 10 fingers; two are opposable. Our thumbs are opposable--they can be placed opposite the other fingers in our hands. I believe that only ...
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Posted: May 15, 2016
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