• tubaruco@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.

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        10 months ago

        that is true, but most of these would either be worse for building a skeleton because they deform other bones or do nothing because theyre just extra bits that wouldnt help anyway (in case its a disjointed bone)

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          10 months ago

          noone has a higher amount of bones

          You could have just said you learned something instead of trying to deflect by moving the goalposts.

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              10 months ago

              It comes down to how you define the average. You have a person with a bone too much and one person with a bone too little. One person is small, the other is big. What is the average skeleton? What does that even mean?

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                  10 months ago

                  Again, the key word is “enough”. That implies that it’s about the number of bones, neither shape or form or size

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        10 months ago

        finally someone that doesnt just tell me there is a very rare disease that creates a single extra bone

        anyway yeah if you count pregnant women the average skeletons in a human body is more than one