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From: XRHAH@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Herbert A. Huston)
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Subject: Incidence of simian crease in humans
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John Napier gives a figure of 0.4 percent while Desmond Morris offers
"roughly one person in twenty-five" (4 percent by my math).  An informal
survey of my coworkers produced a figure closer to Morris'.  Did Napier
have a decimal point shifted on him?  Can someone clear this up?

Here are my references:

Napier, J.  1980  _Hands_.  New York: Pantheon, p. 46
Morris, D.  1985  _Bodywatching_.  New York: Crown, p. 148

-- Herb Huston