Crossword-Solution: REGROWTH 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Zouteveen that there is a case on record of a man having twenty-four fingers and twenty-four toes! I was chiefly led to the conclusion that the presence of supernumerary digits might be due to reversion from the fact that such digits, not only are strongly inherited, but, as I then believed, had the power of regrowth after amputation, like the normal digits of the lower vertebrata.

But I have explained in the second edition of my Variation under Domestication why I now place little reliance on the recorded cases of such regrowth.

Vol.II 14 XII An erroneous statement corrected, with respect to the regrowth of supernumerary digits after amputation.

Paget, and he has come to the conclusion that the degree of regrowth in this case is not greater than sometimes occurs with normal bones, especially with the humerus, when amputated at an early age.

This being so, it is necessary for me to withdraw the view which I formerly advanced, with much hesitation, chiefly on the ground of the supposed regrowth of additional digits, namely, that their occasional development in man is a case of reversion to a lowly, organised progenitor provided with more than five digits.