The variation of bones in the human body is astonishing, and one can see many of them on a skeleton. The adult human body possesses 206 bones in total. The smallest is in the middle ear, while the largest one constitutes our thighs.
The cartilage would be replaced by true bone as the baby develops. The number of bones in the baby will decrease because many of them will fuse. Like the tissue on the tip of our nose, cartilage also separates the extremities of two bones before they gradually fuse.
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