Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4854965-20141021185420/@comment-4854965-20141024155700

Captainkirk wrote: It's possible yet unlikely that it's a productuion error. Plus I was checking out the rubber gloves at my work and realized they are fairly hand-neutral, however the 6 finger thing complicates it. I was thinking, what if it's more than one author however unlikely it is that multiple people have more than 5 fingers on each hand it could be a different society that worships the 6 fingers as a sign on intelligence. That would clear up the right hand/left hand argument. (I fully understand this  improbable yet it would clear up almost every argument about this if there were multipule authors.)

That's not a bad theory, and it's not as improbable as you think. Abnormalities such as polydactyly, or having a tailbone, are more common than people realize. Usually, such things are dealt with shortly after birth. Also, the gene that causes polydactyly is dominant, meaning only one parent needs to have the gene for it.

(Sorry for the genetics-based response.  I'm a science dork ^_^')