Have we four fingers and a thumb or do we have five fingers.What do you think?
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Functionally we have four fingers and a thumb. The thumb can do something the fingers can't, namely oppose (cross the palm). If someone loses (or is born without) a thumb, this is much more functionally significant than losing a finger, and in fact there is special surgery done to give such kids a functioning 'thumb' (moving the index finger).\n\nStructurally - well, the bones are basically the same, although the thumb attaches differently (to the wrist bones instead of to the metacarpals). The muscles are different (again, allowing for opposition.)\n\nI vote for four fingers and a thumb, i.e. five digits. :)
1105179
two hands makes 10 fingers?
309417
Dr d is right, everything depends on the environment and our own selection choices, however s/he is wrong to say these cannot be predicted.\n\nOne can predict that we will live less active lives and will have less requirement for fitness, altough that is not to say that fitness traits will be lost.  There is absolutely no reason for us to go bals or lose fingers if there is no selection for them.\n\nIf man stopped using his little finger (pinky) it would not be lost this is because change only occurs when there is pressure for it to do so.  Man would be no less 'fit' with or without the fifth finger so it would remain, unless men and women decied it was sexy to have four fingers and only individuals with smaller fifth fingers ever bred.  This would cause a shift towards fewer digits, but come on, this would not happen.  \n\nOther answers are correct for saying that our diets and environmental conditions may affect our health and body weight.  For example diabetes is becoming more prevalent in the USA so we might expect natural cases of diabetes to increase, but in 2000yrs it is likely this will have been addressed.
1114459
yeah wow...with 11 fingers imagine how fast you could type!!  then again, with four arms you'd be a bad *ss drummer...i'd take the arms. plus, if you didn't wanna draw attention to yourself you could always just let two of 'em hang under a coat or somethin' and just use the other two!!
457652
Nothing special about five, it could have been four or six.  But what is amazing is that almost all four-limbed creatures have five digits on each limb.  (This is called 'pentadactyly', by the way.)  This includes primates, dogs, cats (don't forget the dew claw), wings of bats and birds, crocodiles, even whales(!).   Even horses hooves develop from one of five toes in the embryonic horse.\n\nWhy is this?  Because all four-limbed creatures developed from the same five-toed ancestor.  Yet another little piece of evidence for evolution to add to the pile.\n\nOh, one other little tidbit ... it's because we have 10 fingers that we developed a base-10 numbering system (that's why we call the 10 symbols we use in our system 'digits' (fingers), and where we get the word 'digital').
243657
Where does it matter we are luckey to have both hands..think of poor guys with only single hand...!!!\nby the way i am right handed..!!!
32817
technically a thumb is not a finger because it is apposable and can move this way and that...so that you can hold things and what not.  don't know why its called a thumb though.  just what it was named i guess.
1107725
It depends on how close you bring the two fingers together. If they are close, no. If they are the nth degree closer than  close, then they are touching.
920967
J and L but i am a good typer so my fingers are on home row (a s d f g h j k l ;) \n\nhope that wuz a good answer :))))))))))
1148182
of course it's a finger.  the word "thumb" is used to identify it.  just like pinky, index, fore finger.  the words are used to identify each digit.
1138358
Each finger has its own distinctive mark. So, the answer is they are different.
592865
yep.  i used to think that the highest i could count on my fingers was to 100 (left hand 10s, right hand 1s, left thumb = 50, right thumb = 5), but this site says i can learn to count to over 1000 on my fingers.  you can too.\n\nmy ten points can be reprsented with my left index finger.
75888
Ten fingers.  If we had 12 THEN a ruler would be useful.
792103
I absolutely have 5 fingernails at the end of each limb. that's the truth.
480610
Three. You have to allow for some wiggle room (pardon the pun) when it comes to finger size and a person's body structure (Some are just built a little loose, for real).
600610
In a single hand, there are 5 phalanges, and 5 meta phalanges. \n\nI hope this helps!
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Just guessing here: touch.