No it doesn’t, because some people are missing limbs or ribs or have artificial joints. So the average body would have slightly fewer bones than necessary to make a whole skeleton.
Pregnant women would increase the average to greater than one complete skeleton per person.
But are those bones in the body of the pregnant woman, or is the body of the fetus a different set?
Same body, two sets
Even if you count the fetus as a human, the fetuses bones are still inside the pregnant woman. So there are still more than one skeleton on average inside humans.
Oh, don’t forget conjoined twins.
I was gonna say: who is out there rocking extra bones?
There’s mutations and hereditary conditions that give you extra bones
Probably false, the avarage probably has a bit less then needed fo a full skeleton.
I’m quite sure it’s more, since some individuals contain multiple sets.
I feel like there should be a joke in here about giving someone’s mom an extra bone last night
Despite all the “AKcHUaLLy” comments this is probably true.
If the body has 206 bones and the global average is like 205.7, a bone that is even partially complete is still a bone, and it is probably so close to 206 that the missing parts are negligible and distributed across the skeleton anyway. Think about it, how many people do you know that are missing an appendage or a bone by defect? I bet it’s less than 0.5% of everyone you know.
Take my upvote.
I have 2 neighbours is missing a leg, and a family friend missing a finger. I am one of the outliers.
Did these people lose their limbs before or after they met you?
I only known them without limbs.
That is a lot of missing bones. How many people would you estimate that you know though? I went to a small high school and I bet out of 500 total I knew 300 just from school. There are lots of family and coworkers and stuff that drive that number pretty high even if you know some amputees.
But it still wouldn’t be an entire human skeleton, as there’s more to a skeleton than just the number of bones.
So by this logic, if you age and develop arthritis you no longer possess a complete human skeleton?
You’ve finally done it. You out-akchuallied the pedantic nerds, becoming, yourself, the final gatekeeper of pedantry
Big (body) if true
Not true, average is higher than 1 entire skeleton.
You sure? I think it might be lower considering lost limbs and so. Pregnancies would raise it but pregnancy is temporary while lost limbs tend to be permanent.
I think we can assume some number above 0.1% to 1% of humans are pregnant at any given time, based on the number of births last year over a 9 month period divided by the number of people on earth total, but with the assumption that many aren’t carried to full term and end in loss of viability.
Each of those can have over 300 bones total, later on a lot of those would fuse so to create a full skeleton we should just consider it as 206.
Amputees numbered 57.7 Million people worldwide in 2017 or 0.8% but the vast majority of these are missing less than a single limb and retain most of their bones.
Some people say there’s a spooky skeleton inside you right now!
HOW!!! How is that possible? I blame illuminati for this.
Eeew no! Geddit out!
technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.
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)
noone has a higher amount of bones
You could have just said you learned something instead of trying to deflect by moving the goalposts.
thats true
It said enough, not the right set of
if the bones are wrong would it still be an entire skeleton?
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?
thats the question we shouldve been asking all along
Again, the key word is “enough”. That implies that it’s about the number of bones, neither shape or form or size
Late stage pregnant woman have a higher amount of human bones
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
What about that one horrible disease where your muscles start turning into extra bones?
those bones dont help much in making a skeleton
Rarer than getting a synthetic hip or being born without wisdom teeth, for example
or losing limbs
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Its all because of Joe
Who’s steve jobs?
Ligma balls
NOOOOOOOOO
Nuh uh!
I guess we are all average… :)
Surprising but true!