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Why do we have ten fingers?

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Tina:
Why? and ten toes?

John Roth:

--- Quote from: Tina on June 30, 2011, 09:49:49 AM ---Why? and ten toes?

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We don't all have 10 fingers. Some of us have 12.

John Roth

jk:
Because that is what works for us. Try to imagine your hand with less or more fingers and see if it would still work so well.

Chiara DB:
I think this is a question for evolutionary biologists, not the MT.

jk:
Actually someone once asked Michael this precise question before, and I think the context of it was - if our universe is based on number 7, why do we have 5 fingers or five toes on each hand/foot. And they answered something along the line of "whatever works best".

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