This photograph was taken of one member of a village that was said to be full of people with a similar number of digits on each hand.



It was thought that something in the water was to blame.

It's the next Jimi Hendrix / Liberace!!!

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It was thought that something in the water was to blame.

What? Like an octopus was this guy's father?

This is unusual, although it can happen, Anne Boleyn was said to of had six fingers on each hand.

Looks like a Chernoble worker! lol

Having 6 fingers on each hand is said to be a dominant trait, while having 5 is recessive. It is possible, but there are so few people now with 6 fingers now for some reason.

i can't understand why we have 5 digits anyways... 3 seems all that are really necessary.

ring finger basically holds a ring. pinky is just plain useless and very hard to train to become useful. the both of them are very weak and don't help much in carrying things, in fact, they seem to hurt when you are trying to carry something because they are in the way

How do you confuse a guy like this? ask "which is the Saturday night finger" .he he he

That would be a 7 tentacled octopuss then LB

Noel Gallager has an extra toe!

....is it a genetic defect...!

i would think that it were a genetic defect, and as more and more people began to inherit the "defect", the more the 7 digit/5digit hand ratio changed. which would explain why most people i the tribe have 7 digits

I heard this guy was a piano player in a past life.

Well Actually He Has 6 Fingers And A Thumb
But All Those Fingers Must Come In Handy SomeWhere.............. Like Cleanin

Looks cool. Think of what all you could do with 7 fingers lol.

well acording to darwin this is possible if there is breeding within the family. If the village is small enough im sure there is a number of inbreeding cases. There is another village in africa that cotains many people with crabed hands and feet. (if you dont know what that is, its when all of the fingers or toes are gathered together and form two fingers. They look like crab hands basically.) in repliance with this mistery it is no mystery it can be explained by simple science.

If evolution said that we should grow a new digit, we would be better served with another opposable one. It is unlikley that this man is able to touch the two extra fingers when he moves his thumb along his palm and might not be able to touch the tips of them either.

Since the practicality of those extra two fingers is highly in question, I wouldn't expect to see more pictures of hands like that, unless Photoshop is involved.

Heres a man with Lobster like hands, his name was Grady Styles, and a circus side show performer. His hands look like claws.

LOOKS LIKE A GENETIC MUTATION.

PEOPLE ARE BORN WITH NO FINGERS, OR STUBS OF FINGERS, AND THIS IS PROVEN AS GENETIC..

SO, I IMAGINE THE 7 FINGER GUY IS A CASE OF GENETIC MUTATION.

MAYBE, IT'S A WEAK FAMILY GENE, OR SOMETHING IN THE GROUND, LIKE SOMETHING RADIOACTIVE THAT AFFECTS THE GENES.

7 FINGERS... COOL

QUOTE (skyejax @ Mar 26 2003, 03:59 PM)

well acording to darwin this is possible if there is breeding within the family.

That is not really a Darwin thing, more of a Mendel thing.

And Cerberus, stop shouting.

Imagine a 7-finger pianst?

i think its definetly someting in the water but if one of them got seven fingers from drinking it why did more ppl drink it?

QUOTE (SPAZ @ May 23 2003, 01:15 AM)

i think its definetly someting in the water but if one of them got seven fingers from drinking it why did more ppl drink it?

So... you state a theory, critique it and then offer no explination. Can it really be said that you believe that theory then?

I know someone who has six fingers
and he did an operation to make them five

Bad ass.....I wish i could be cool and have 7 fingers

Mandy

make a good guitar player

Well said...

how can i see this picture, i know its been a long time seen this post but i was looking on google about people with 7 fingers and i came across to this forum.My grandparents had 7 fingers