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To: GodGunsGuts
Ever wonder what happened to your large grasping toe?

Don't have one eh?!

Well, that's because the genes that regulate our foot design have been "adjusted" to accommodate footwear. It has been hypothesized that the USE of footwear began the selection process (or management process) for alleles that optimized that shape for the use of footwear.

Now, supportive footwear? Who knows. But regarding the use of SNOWSHOES, that process should have taken hold among humans at the Northern limits of the Temperate zone at the beginning of the last glacial period. That's exactly when such footwear (plus socks and wrappings) would have begun to make sense.

Before that time all the evidence indicates that OUR LINE of human beings lived further South, and maybe even in South Africa, where the Temperate zone would have been much closer to the Equator (due to the open Ocean to the South that allowed rip-roaring nasty Antarctic storms to beat that coast to pieces.

The DNA researchers come up with the 100,000 year thing as well.

Further refinements have occurred in the footbones of those living in the Arctic ~ their "design accommodation" includes assumption of the use of the Rat Trap on Skis.

22 posted on 10/01/2009 3:52:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Ever wonder what happened to your large grasping toe? Don't have one eh?!

Ummmm...not really, no, can't say as I have...I generally get along pretty good with my hands when it comes to grasping what I need.

28 posted on 10/01/2009 5:34:33 PM PDT by tpanther (Science was, is and will forever be a small subset of God's creation.)
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