I woke-up from a nap in my hammock yesterday and looked at my hand and was hit by an epiphany, which is that fingers are actually just little arms when you think about it. That first knuckle is like your shoulder, and the next is like a little elbow, and then you have a little wrist, and the pads of your fingers are sort of like the palms of your hands, except without any fingers attached to them. So then it occurred to me how useful it would be if fingers did have little fingers attached to them, especially in terms of grasping things like cherry tomatoes or cashews. Hammering nails might be more difficult though, because you’re just giving the hammer more fingers to smash. On the other hand, you could probably hold the nails better.
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