> 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.
