Mark wrote:
>
> Take a look at old cave paintings, probably in
> France. See any silhouette's of people's five
> fingered hands? Now why would a caveman want
> to show his descendants that he had 5 fingers?
> The four-fingered? The six-fingered? My
> surmise is another species of sapient apes,
> perhaps neanderthalensis, perhaps another branch.
>
AFAIK, all land vertebrates are naturally
five-fingered, and those that exhibit a
different number of fingers do it because of
deletion of one or two fingers [BTW, this is
the reason why birds aren't dinosaurs, because
the deleted fingers in dinosaurs are not the
same as the birds]
Alberto Monteiro
