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• CulturedLout@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about people with extra fingers and toes? Parasitic twins?

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  • Goatmom@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Tremble@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Goatmom@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • CulturedLout@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, totally forgot about pregnancy. That should count too.

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• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My wife has an extra rib above her collarbone.

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• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plenty of people do. My sister for example had bones in her feet that never fused and had to have an extra removed. I guess that’s pretty common

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• Exatron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some people were born with extra fingers, and sometimes entire extra limbs.

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