The lengths of the individual fingers and toes were estimated from those images by two experienced judges, and length ratios were constructed for all possible pairs of fingers or toes on each hand or foot. Thumbs were not measured, but the great toe was measured and used to construct length ratios. Past research had concentrated on the relative lengths of the index and ring fingers the 2D:4D ratio. This ratio is close to 1.
Relative toe lengths. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Romanus, T. Frequency of long second toe in Swedish children from Uppland province. Acta genetica 3: OMIM entry.
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Myths of Human Genetics John H. McDonald University of Delaware. Toe length: The myth In some people, the big toe is longer than the second toe here called "L," for long big toe , while other people have the big toe shorter than the second toe "S".
Toes ranging from big toes longer upper left to big toe shorter lower right. The reality Toe length as a character I did an image search for painted toenails and arranged the images from longer big toes to longer second toes.
Beckman et al. Papadopoulos and Damon performed a similar study on four tribes in the Solomon Islands: Parents S offspring L offspring S x S 74 46 S x L 63 L x L 51 In this study, S parents are more likely to have S offspring than are L parents, so there seems to be some genetic influence on toe length. Login or Join to answer. We had trouble talking to the server.
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