> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 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] 

The six-finger human gene is the dominant gene.

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