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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.

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Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Pregnant women would increase the average to greater than one complete skeleton per person.

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- SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But are those bones in the body of the pregnant woman, or is the body of the fetus a different set?
  
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  - JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Same body, two sets
    
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  - Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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- CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh, don’t forget conjoined twins.
  
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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I was gonna say: whose out there rocking extra bones?

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- chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s mutations and hereditary conditions that give you extra bones
  
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  - SeekPie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Would a broken bone count as 2?
    
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