Why Do We Have Ten Fingers?

Monday, May 17, 2010 - 15:33 in Mathematics & Economics

In How Many Limbs Should Humans Have? I described my Limb Law, an empirical law I discovered which relates how long an animal’s limbs are to how many limbs it has. This law is explained by virtue of animals having evolved a limb design that minimizes the amount of needed materials to reach out into the world (see links to my academic work in the previous piece). read more

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