Submitted 1 day ago by BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
No. That is not at all correct!
To start with, we have 8 fingers. Have you noticed? Count them. 8.
And, they are known as ‘digits’. That’s a clue for us.
And finally, there are 8 binary digits in an IPv4 octet.
Humans evolved with 8 fingers so that we would have 8 digits to do binary math on our knuckles. That’s what I do with mine, anyway. (I’m studying for the CCNA.)
No no no, we evolved five fingers to be able to give radical high fives to all our bros and broettes. You ain’t rad with a high four or high six, what even is a high six?
See also: Shska, brah. 🤙
We evolved 5 fingers for the discount. There’s no 4 finger discount, only 5. Using the 5 finger discount to acquire food ensured survival for our ancestors and therefore the trait was able to be carried over into future generations.
Why not six?
Evolution saw how OP we were already with just 5 and decided to chill with the buffs.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I learned in bible school that the reason we have 3 segments on our fingers is that with the palm they align perfectly with the panels on a banana. This is evidence of the perfect creator–the Christian God, and why humans can only hold bananas.
This is an actual thing an apologist said. He later backpedaled, but not before it became a trope to teach in Christian schools as evidence against evolution.
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“There’s no way we evolved from monkeys, and I’ll prove it: humans are good at holding bananas!”
Can’t make this stuff up