Some people were born with extra fingers, and sometimes entire extra limbs.
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Tremble@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoThere are a lot of people missing bones, but I don’t think anyone has extra, so….
Exatron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
What about people with extra fingers and toes? Parasitic twins?
Goatmom@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Pregnant women as well. Now their human body contains two skeletons, thus raising the average number of bones in a human body by a considerable amount. I would guess there’s probably more pregnant women than there are people missing limbs.
Tremble@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Ok then technically we are all born with an extra set of teeth. That we lose. So a full skeleton contains all the baby teeth as well.
Goatmom@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Traditionaly when talking about the skeleton, we refer to the adult skeleton seeing as an adolescent skeleton have more bones that then fuse. I agree that we need to take that into account, but I don’t believe the statement would be referring to an adolescent skeleton.
CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Oh yeah, totally forgot about pregnancy. That should count too.