Quote Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla
I agree with ya Bilbo about the platypus duck thing...

If it works why change it? Four fingers and a thumb was a brilliant idea so He used it a few times.

One more thing...

When I was young they used to say that humans did not need the pinky finger. I was told (in science class) that it would continue to grow smaller from lack of use and eventually baboes would be born without them. I'm 31 years old now and never seen a pinkiless baby that the doctors didn't call deformed. Seriously.
I remember my teacher trying to explain the evolution of ape fur into human hair.

I asked him seeing as human hair if left just gets ridiculously long whether or not the evolution of human head and facial hair coincided with the invention of scissors?

Can you just imagine all these little early humans running around with beards and hair down to their ankles. Every time they tried to light a fire they would kill everyone in the cave :P