> Darren New escreveu:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> On a side note, I know some guy from work who has 6 fingers, both 
>>> hands and
>>> foot, fully functional!  I don't know him well enough though to ask 
>>> wether he
>>> plays the piano... :/  His sons have it too. :P
>>
>> It's actually a dominant gene. I understand there were towns in 
>> Ireland a few hundred years ago where everyone had six fingers.
> 
> If it's dominant why they're still not around?  Couldn't get around with 
> the decimal system? ;P

Because one of the side-effects of that gene is that they're cannibals 
(cf. Hannibal Lecter), and they ate themselves to extinction.

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