Daly City from California has attended a miracle this month. Baby Kamani Hubbard was born with 12 working fingers and 12 working toes, suffering from a condition called polydactyly. According to the doctors, such a condition represents a genetic trait which causes the appearance of extra fingers and toes.

Yet, the remarkable thing about baby Kamani’s condition is that all his 24 digits are working perfectly. The history of the polydactyly condition has recorded many children born with extra fingers and toes but very few with extreme functionality in all his 24 digits.

The extra finger or toe is usually known to represent a small piece of soft tissue. At times, it can also contain bone without joints. Science shows that it is very rare that the extra digit may work completely. It normally grows on the right side of the hand and it represents the abnormal fork in an existing digit.

Polydactyly can be a feature of a syndrome of congenital anomalies and usually the mutated gene is involved in developmental patterning.

Kris Hubbard, the father of the baby, stated that he was shocked in seeing his little baby’s fingers and toes functioning. He added that he had spotted this genetic trait in his family’s history, but has never heard of anybody that ended up with such fully developed digits.

Kris had had such an extra digit removed and the normal thing for the doctors to do would be to cut the extra fingers and toes from Kamani too. But his parents didn’t want to hear of such thing after they had found out that the baby is just fine and completely functioning.