Why Do So Many People In Old Art Have A Long Second Toe?

Did you know that the (admittedly more recent) Statue of Liberty, the Venus de Milo, the Ancient Roman Boxer at Rest, and the Ancient Greek Laocoön and His Sons share a foot quirk in common? 

In all of these iconic works of art, the characters depicted have second toes longer than their big toe – a phenomenon sometimes called “Morton’s toe”. The feature is also seen in Botticelli’s

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