Do you have "monkey feet?"

Apparently "1 in 13 people do."
Scientists have discovered that about one in thirteen people have flexible ape-like feet.
A team studied the feet of 398 visitors to the Boston Museum of Science.
The results show differences in foot bone structure similar to those seen in fossils of a member of the human lineage from two million years ago.
It is hoped the research, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, will establish how that creature moved.
Apes like the chimpanzee spend a lot of their time in trees, so their flexible feet are essential to grip branches and allow them to move around quickly - but how most of us ended up with more rigid feet remains unclear.
Jeremy DeSilva from Boston University and a colleague asked the museum visitors to walk barefoot and observed how they walked by using a mechanised carpet that was able to analyse several components of the foot.

More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22728014
 
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I don't trust any researchers that charge money to see their studies. They're not sure about it, so they keep it in their field for their colleagues' eyes only.
 
I found a blog with an interesting video of a girl born without arms using her feet to manipulate brushes and jars to apply makeup. Her feet flex in the middle but in a good way, giving her the control a hand would have. It seems unlikely she was coincidentally born with the one sort of feet that could replace her non existent hands - clearly, having used them for fine manipulation since babyhood, she has developed them differently.
 
science doesn't account for the obvious. she would just be an outlier.