plmcelligott opened this issue on Mar 15, 2005 ยท 94 posts
randym77 posted Thu, 17 March 2005 at 8:45 AM
Basically, the part of your message I disagree with is this: However, five seems to have been a remarkably successful number for fingers on the whole Five may not have been particularly successful. In fact, a lot of vertebrates have different numbers of digits. It's just that five was part of our ancestral blueprint, likely by chance.