Isn't it weird that we have exactly five fingers and five toes on each hand and foot.
Isn't it weird that we have exactly five fingers and five toes on each hand and foot.
I mean why 5, why 5 on each limb, why not 4 or 6. Why do our feet also have 5. Whats with our body being so symmetrical.
People who know anything about evolution, now is your time to shine.
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We are devolved from octopuses.
Octopuses are the goats.
Actually goats are goats.
Also I HATE the fact that the plural for octopus is octopuses and nit octupi.
Octopi is doubly wrong, it's Greek, not Latin. If it wasn't octopuses it should be octopodes, ock-TOP-oh(uh)-deez.
The more usual Greek word seems to have been polypous (also pōlyps), from polys "many" + pous, but for this word Thompson suggests folk-etymology and a non-Hellenic origin.
The classically correct Greek plural (had the word been used in this sense in ancient Greek) would be octopodes.
Octopi regards the -us in this word as the Latin noun ending that takes -i in plural. Like many modern scientific names of creatures, it was formed in Modern Latin from Greek elements, so it might be allowed to partake of Latin grammar in forming the plural.
Still I'd prefer octopi since despite origins in different languages its now a word in english and we can use it however english speakers like and not the greek.
i debated writing octopi ngl
Really? Don't recall ever hearing octopuses... It sounds so awkward