Born with Functional Extra Digits

[visceral_instinct]

I'd love to be able to see UV light.

 

[ElectricFetus]

Yes it would be intresting, but UV and more prominently IR photography are a wonderful facsimile.

 

[John Connellan]

Wow, IR makes everything very wintery eh?

 

[swivel]

Agreed! :bravo:
They are fully functional, not just flaps of extra skin.
A part of me always wonders if its evolution at work and we would be surgically altering it.

You aren't going to alter his DNA by lopping them off.

And this isn't evolution at work. It is mutation at work. In order for this allele to increase in the gene pool, this guy would have to have some advantage that led to increased reproductivity. Since his popularity is going to be offset by his creepiness, this might have a negative impact on the allele.

The religion gene is probably the only thing having a major impact on evolution right now. Atheists keep aborting and religious people keep having 12 kids, sometimes 6 or 8 of them at a time. An extra digit can't match religious devotion.

 

[Orleander]

...And this isn't evolution at work. It is mutation at work. In order for this allele to increase in the gene pool, this guy would have to have some advantage that led to increased reproductivity...../QUOTE]

Wha??? Evolution is all about mutations. And in a world of computers adn keyboards, how do you know extra fingers aren't about attracting a mate?
Thousands of years ago, extra kingers could have been about throwing a spear better, but that kid was killed at birth for being different.