The Fifth Toe Syndrome

Happy Sense of Smell Day!

The other day I was looking at my toes and I came to an odd realization: my pinky toe is really small. Have a look at yours because you might find the same. Why is that, I thought?

Off I went down the proverbial rabbit hole, googling why our fifth toe is so much smaller than the rest. It turns out that it’s largely due to a complex interplay of genetic, …