• knorke3@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      the question is: is a skeleton that’s missing pieces still “one skeleton”? And if so, at which point does it become not a skeleton? Because i’m reasonably sure you wouldn’t call a severed foot a skeleton even though it is still arguably “one skeleton” that is just missing a lot of pieces.

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        10 months ago

        i think a skeleton is just multiple bones together that are attached. A pile of bones isn’t a skeleton, it’s a pile of bones

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            10 months ago

            If an anthropologist found a 2-million year old intact foot, I think they’d call it a skeleton, sure.