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I mean why 5, why 5 on each limb, why not 4 or 6. Why do our feet also have 5. Whats with our body being so symmetrical.

People who know anything about evolution, now is your time to shine.

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[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, what school of science is this? What sort of textbook might explain the things you just did?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

None that I’m aware of, that was my own synthesis based on my own thinking.

edit: actually robotics might have some insight into this

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

illustrate this and publish it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I was gonna say “too lazy” but there is AI now so maybe I can have my minions do it for me