Eli5: Why can’t we move our toes individually like we can our fingers?
In: Biology
It’s not just because your muscles don’t allow it, it’s because evolution has made it unnecessary to maintain the muscles required to do it. Because it’s not useful.
Meanwhile having the 5 toes themselves (even though the strong and controllable muscles are gone) doesn’t seem to actually hurt anything or degrade your ability to survive, reproduce, etc.
So there they still are.
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