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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Gigan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 10 months ago
Pregnant women would increase the average to greater than one complete skeleton per person.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
But are those bones in the body of the pregnant woman, or is the body of the fetus a different set?
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Oh, don’t forget conjoined twins.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was gonna say: whose out there rocking extra bones?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
There’s mutations and hereditary conditions that give you extra bones
MTK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably false, the avarage probably has a bit less then needed fo a full skeleton.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 months ago
I’m quite sure it’s more, since some individuals contain multiple sets.
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Its gonna be some stupid number, like 1.4777655678 skeletons per adult, on average
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have 2 neighbours is missing a leg, and a family friend missing a finger. I am one of the outliers.
Greg@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Did these people lose their limbs before or after they met you?
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
Venator@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
But it still wouldn’t be an entire human skeleton, as there’s more to a skeleton than just the number of bones.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
So by this logic, if you age and develop arthritis you no longer possess a complete human skeleton?
Sidhean@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’ve finally done it. You out-akchuallied the pedantic nerds, becoming, yourself, the final gatekeeper of pedantry
Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like there should be a joke in here about giving someone’s mom an extra bone last night
Snapz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Big (body) if true
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not true, average is higher than 1 entire skeleton.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
tubaruco@lemm.ee 10 months ago
technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.
snooggums@kbin.social 10 months ago
tubaruco@lemm.ee 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)
Greg@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Late stage pregnant woman have a higher amount of human bones
tubaruco@lemm.ee 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
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
What about that one horrible disease where your muscles start turning into extra bones?
tubaruco@lemm.ee 10 months ago
those bones dont help much in making a skeleton
HamBrick@programming.dev 10 months ago
Rarer than getting a synthetic hip or being born without wisdom teeth, for example
NotMelon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HOW!!! How is that possible? I blame illuminati for this.
Seudo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some people say there’s a spooky skeleton inside you right now!
THE_ANON@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
NO!HOW!HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE???AAA
dipshit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Surprising but true!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eeew no! Geddit out!
ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lelgenio@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Nuh uh!
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I guess we are all average… :)
Burninator05@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The mode human body contains enough bones to make a complete human skeleton. The average human body doesn’t have enought.
Greg@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The additional ~200 bones from fetuses in late stage pregnant woman would be more than the missing bones from amputees etc. OPs statement is accurate.
jaybone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wouldn’t they be too small though?
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can’t use one unfused half-bone in place of one full bone >:(
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Actually, OP’s statement is still wrong because there are more bones than 1 entire skeleton.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The word average can technically refer to arithmetic mean, median, mode, or range. That’s why you were probably taught them at the same time. That’s also why tests like the ACT tend to have a * at the top that says something along the lines of “The word average indicates arithmetic mean.”
morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I have never in my life seen it refer to anything but the mean
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Actually, the average human body contains more than one skeleton.
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evidences@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This depends entirely on how many people there are out there with missing limbs.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Different perspective: Even if you miss a limb your body contains the full 100% of the skeleton you can find in a person missing that limb.
There still complete human beings even if their body has a unique challenge.
ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I appreciate what you’re saying here - people come in all shapes and sizes, with different abilities, limb counts, etc. Every one is a human being deserving respect and dignity.
But OP didn’t say “a complete human being” - it said “a complete human skeleton.”
If an individual is missing a limb, by birth or by accident, they don’t have a complete skeleton. It’s a plain fact. Doesn’t mean they are any less human.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Are infinitesimally shaved average bones not bones? Idk who is the bone authority responsible for making that decision.
Tremble@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There are a lot of people missing bones, but I don’t think anyone has extra, so….