Why do people have toes?

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Gives you some place else to put your nail polish.

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so that you can balance standing up.

For ballence, without them we'd fall flat on our faces.

To help maintain balance and allow for running. (Try running while keeping your toes solidly up)

They are there for balance. Without your big toe you can't stand up.

cause if our butt cheeks were on our feet it would look funny!

To pick up things with them like fingers

so people can count to 20.
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Vestigal digits; indicative of common primate heritage with chimps and apes. Eat it, creationists!

Toes also serve to keep us balanced while we're standing, walking, and running.

to help you balance.

balance

because we have feet

Because apes needed to grab ahold of tree limbs.

to maintane balance

Without them you would fall over when standing.

to stick in your mouth .kinda like you question put your foot in your mouth

pretty sure its 4 balance or maybe we just got toes so we can get pedicures or sumtin.

evolution

What you should be asking is why do we have pinkie toes.
You know the piggy that went wee, wee, wee, all the way home.

because monkeys used them partially as hands

The toes, especially the big toe, play an essential role in walking, although a loss of the smallest toe will not affect gait.
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to use as counting in case we have to count bigger than 10.

To be specific the Great Toe is required for most of the balance.

It's a family tradition. Our ancestors used toes to swing from trees.

for balance with out them it would be hard to stand or walk!

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