Sorry if this has been discussed already. heard about it on bob and tom this morning...

http://yeahthatsodd.com/2009/02/02/baby ... elve-toes/



...so are we evolving?

If the extra finger is fully functional, he will be a hell of a pianist.

Real polydactyls

* Kamani Hubbard of Daly City, CA was born in January 2009 with 12 functional fingers and 12 functional toes.[4][5]
* Hrithik Roshan, a Bollywood actor born with a supernumerary thumb on his right hand.[6]
* Antonio Alfonseca, a Major League Baseball pitcher.
* During an early scene of Get Carter (the 1971 original), there is footage (in the background) of an uncredited extra grasping/holding his beer glass with six fingers.
* Legend states that Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, had this disorder, but modern historians generally disbelieve this theory.
* Little Tich.
* Hound Dog Taylor, blues guitarist.
* Gary Sobers, West Indian cricketer, had an extra finger on each hand which he removed himself during childhood "with the aid of catgut and a sharp knife".[7]
* Gemma Arterton,[8] actress, had an extra finger on each hand which were removed at birth.
* Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
* Sid Wilson, turntablist of Slipknot. He was born with an extra digit on his hands and feet. They were dead, however, and were removed shortly after birth.

[edit] Fictional, mythological and biblical human polydactyls

* Hannibal Lecter, the fictional psychiatrist and serial murderer, had a sixth finger on his left hand. Its removal is crucial to the plot of the novel Hannibal.
* Swartt and Veil Sixclaw, fictional anthropomorphic ferrets from Brian Jacques's book series, Redwall, were both polydactyls. It was stated in the novel that Veil inherited polydactylism from his father, Swartt.
* Count Rugen, one of the villains in the novel and movie The Princess Bride, had six fingers on his right hand, by which feature Iñigo Montoya was able to identify him as the man who had killed his father. Also, this made finding a good sword difficult for the count.
* In Gattaca, the main characters attend a concert of a twelve fingered pianist.
* In the television series Monk, the main character's wife was murdered by a six-fingered man.
* Sophie Wender, in The Chrysalids, conceals that she has six toes on each foot, in a society where mutants are hunted down.
* One of the sons of the biblical giant, Goliath, is said to have had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot:

2 Samuel 21:20
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. - KJV
1 Chronicles 20:6
And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant. - KJV

if this happens on a wide scale and procreates as/more often than five fingered people then yes. if not, which seems to be the case, it's pretty much an anomaly. there's no reason people would need/want to have six fingers or that these people would survive more readily than those with 5 in the world we live in, as far as i can tell.

cb or someone who knows more about evolution can correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure i'm right.

Kid is gonna draw some fucked up Thanksgiving turkeys in kindergarten.

And it is functional!

I'm sure this happens a lot more than is reported in the news.

even with fully functioning digits?

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die.

Surprised it took 9 posts for someone to say this.

you even posted before I did.

It would be cool if 6 fingers is a dominant gene representation and starts to take over the population. New PS3 controllers!

I felt like I had to make the turkey joke.

I think the turkey would look superior with one more tailfeather

"I pulse and twitch, I release and spasm
I heard Satan on the AM radio
I trace the skull in your face and remember
I kissed a girl with 13 fingers, kissed a girl with 13 fingers"