Half the bones in a adult human are in the hands and feet. I don’t know if there’s enough missing limbs to offset fetus skeletons but I there’s a whole lot of bones missing in a double amputee.
Babies have up to 270 bones at birth (instead of 206 in an adult), which makes up for at least one double amputee (hands have 27 bones and feet have 26 each).
evidences@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This depends entirely on how many people there are out there with missing limbs.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 years ago
It would have to be a lot considering that a baby has a full set of bones while a missing limb is generally only a few of them.
evidences@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Half the bones in a adult human are in the hands and feet. I don’t know if there’s enough missing limbs to offset fetus skeletons but I there’s a whole lot of bones missing in a double amputee.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 years ago
Babies have up to 270 bones at birth (instead of 206 in an adult), which makes up for at least one double amputee (hands have 27 bones and feet have 26 each).