Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)

Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians get the best of both worlds, often having four digits on their “hands” and five on their “feet.” But no species of vertebrates...

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Read Deeper: Dinosaurs & Prehistory

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte - View on Amazon
  2. Dinosaurs Rediscovered by Michael Benton - View on Amazon
  3. The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker - View on Amazon
  4. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday - View on Amazon
  5. Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky - View on Amazon
  6. After the Ice by Steven J. Mithen - View on Amazon
  7. The Ice Age by Jamie C. Woodward - View on Amazon
  8. The Long Summer by Brian M. Fagan - View on Amazon
  9. The Little Ice Age by Brian M. Fagan - View on Amazon
  10. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
  11. Lone Survivors by Chris Stringer - View on Amazon
  12. Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes - View on Amazon
  13. Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
  14. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson - View on Amazon
  15. Neanderthal Man by Svante Pääbo - View on Amazon
  16. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
  17. The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen - View on Amazon
  18. The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen - View on Amazon
  19. How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth Shapiro - View on Amazon
  20. Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould - View on Amazon
  21. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
  22. The Crucible of Creation by Simon Conway-Morris - View on Amazon
  23. Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey - View on Amazon
  24. On the origin of species by means of natural selection by Charles Darwin (4.3/5) - View on Amazon

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