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    15 hours ago

    The human body evolved for resilience: having a large number of bones provides redundancy, meaning that we can break many bones and still have at least one to spare.

    It’s also partially a vestigial trait, as our ancestors needed to do a lot of boning in order for the species to survive - nowadays we don’t need to replenish our numbers as much.