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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Ostrich Foot

Evolution doesn't create perfection. It creates just good enough to survive. An ostrich foot looks a lot like the paralympic prosthetic blade that athletes will use. Could some of those 26 bones fuse together so that we'd have more of an ostrich foot? And i guess, just given technology, would we be better off if there was some intervention to make a better human foot? I mean, one is, might we evolve, if we survive for millions more years, to have a better foot?

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