The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22690   Message #247419
Posted By: Mrrzy
26-Jun-00 - 09:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Any interesting mutations?
Subject: Any interesting mutations?
Well, I always knew I had a split uvula (look it up, O ye dirty-minded ones), but I just found out that one of my feet apparently doesn't belong, quite, to a human. It has an "atavistic" (their term, not mine!) formation that makes it think it ought, well, to have a thumb, and prehensile, to boot. I am vastly entertained by this, but it started me wondering how frequent these kinds of somewhere-else-on-the-normal-curve formations are? I'm not counting things that get diagnosed, like cleft palate or webbed fingers, but the strange little oddities that don't really get in the way, they just, well, aren't quite right...

And feel free to post anonymously if you don't feel like telling... let us guess who has the hairy eyeballs!