Q&A

Why do we have 2 legs and 2 arms?

Why do we have 2 legs and 2 arms?

Basically because we are the ancestors of bilateral organisms with two legs, arms and eyes. Our ancestors were once dichromatic, then they started to eat fruit and the mutation that lead to trichromatism gave advantage to those ancestors who could pick the fruit at it’s peak of ripeness.

Why do we have only two hands?

Originally Answered: Why do humans have two hands? We evolved from bilaterally symetric ancestors – going all the way back to primitive chordates such as amphioxus. They (and we) have two sides of the body, two sides of the brain, two of most types of appendages, and paired organs for obtaining oxygen.

Why do humans have two ears and one mouth?

Listen to philosophical wisdom “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” So said Epictetus, a Greek Stoic philosopher who lived nearly 2,000 years ago, and his ears would be ringing due to lack of real communication that exists between so many couples today.

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Can humans have four arms?

Tiny Lakshmi Tatma was born two years ago with four arms and four legs. It took more than 30 surgeons 27 hours to not only remove two of Lakshmi’s arms and two of her legs but also to rebuild much of her body and save her organs.

Why do humans have 4 limbs?

Why 4 legs? Terrestrial vertebrates have four legs because they evolved from a fish ancestor that had four members that were not too far from actual legs (members that could “easily” evolve into legs). This is what we call a phylogenetic signal.

What would happen if you have 6 fingers?

Extra fingers frequently pop up as birth defects; it’s called polydactyly, and it’s a simple genetic error. If we did develop a true sixth finger, it would probably grow up out of our wrist bones as an extra quasi-thumb.

Is it possible to have 3 hands?

An Indian woman has given birth to a girl with four legs and three hands in what doctors believe to be the first case of two naturally born triplets being conjoined. “The male child is normal but the female is a case of conjoined twins,” says Dr. Rohitesh Meena, Metro.co.uk reports.

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What are your 7 limbs?

‘The limbs’ describes the anatomy of the upper limb—divided into the arm between shoulder and elbow; the forearm between elbow and wrist; and the hand below the wrist—and the lower limb, which is divided into the thigh between hip and knee; the leg between knee and ankle; and the foot below the ankle.