Yoandri Hernandez Garrido is the proud owner of 12 fingers and 12 toes, and is aptly nicknamed “24″ by his mates.
“Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists.” - Nine News
It’s known as polydactyly, which means “many fingers”, and is caused by a genetic mutation that affects the genes related to development patterning. It a relatively common congenital defect, however Mr Garrido is a rare case because of how well all of his extra fingers and toes are formed.
High six!
I will concede this man’s situation is indeed rare for our time, but labelling it a defect is rather insulting. He has a biological advantage over the rest of the human population. Maybe in a 300 generations all humans will have 12 fingers and 12 toes. When I look at this I see fundamental evidence that we’re evolving.
Unless this mutation leads him having many, many offspring, and the offspring that carry that mutation have many, many descendants and so on for 300 generations, it is highly unlikely this will be the norm.
Think about the, um, reproductive possibilities of having a few extra digits…so it may in fact give him a reproductive advantage…
“He has a biological advantage over the rest of the human population.”
How is it an advantage? If more is always better, why don’t we have 50 fingers? Why not have 8 legs?
It’s actually 10 fingers and 2 thumbs. Thumbs aren’t fingers.
All thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs.
Bless the lord for such miracles. This dude has accepted jesus in his life and immediately was blessed with extra fingers
lol yeah he accepted jesus in his life before he was born……gotta be kidding me
nice assumption bro
Not sure if serious…
what?
Guys–it’s a Poe/joke/that whooshing noise.
@Geoffrey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb
Man, I wish I had 6 fingers on one hand. Masturbating would be even better.
I thought we were evolving to lose our pinkies. Damn you grade school!
Someone needs to teach him to play a musical instrument. The only defect here is how sadly underutilized those extra fingers are.
It’s neither defect nor blessing – it’s just different, is all. And not particularly newsworthy, IMO … yet here I am reading it
Fuck You Wayne Stidolph
Please lord bless me with a second penis, and maybe a spare third testicle.
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If only technology is not artificially helping people with 8 fingers and two thumbs. If this mutation gives 10 fingers and 2 thumbs a survival benefit, the pattern may well indeed be TNG.
Execute this monster immediately.
You all act like this is a miracle. It is not, it’s a relatively common inheritable genetic disorder called ‘Postaxial polydactyly’.
It’s as simple as that, no Jesus, no blessing, no rare and special thing.
Has anyone else given thought to the fact that he possesses two middle fingers on each hand and is able to flip people off with twice the effectiveness?
He must reproduce as much as possible to pass on this amazing trait!
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