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(see Fig. 31). So far we have as the typical digital 

 formula for the human foot 1>2>>3>4>5, with a not 

 uncommon variant 2>'1>>3>4>5. There is yet another 

 type, which seems much less common, in which 2=3>1 

 >4>5. In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 is the skeleton of a Bushman, in which it is possible that 



Fig. 30. Fig. 31. 



Fig. 30. — Outline of a Child's Foot. 



Fig. 31. — Outline of a Foot in which the Second Toe is 

 Longer than the Big Toe. The So-called Greek Ideal. 



the third digit was longest of all — a distinctlj- anthropoid 

 condition. The change from the so-called Greek ideal 

 to the foot with the dominant big toe is almost certainly 

 no outcome of boot -wearing, nor is any one link in the 

 whole sequence of the atrophy of the fifth, fourth, third, 

 and second digits. All are natural processes of evolution, 

 and all have probably taken place in a series of missing 



