marsman Posted April 19, 2019 #1 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Humans have grown an extra bone: Scientists discover a pointless knee bone called the fabella that may be causing osteoarthritis Found in 39 per cent of people around the world in 2018 but has no known use May be a vestigial organ which has become redundant over time as we evolved Was only present in 11.2 per cent of people around the world in 1918 Improvements in nutrition made humans bigger which meant the bone - which is embedded in a tendon behind the knee - has been growing https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6939907/Scientists-discover-pointless-knee-bone-called-fabella-making-comeback.html 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiff Posted April 19, 2019 #2 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Fascinating. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWoo7 Posted April 19, 2019 #3 Share Posted April 19, 2019 . .. getting to the bare bones . . . How spellbindingly mesmerizing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted April 19, 2019 #4 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Is this growth going to become a problem? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlookerofmayhem Posted April 19, 2019 #5 Share Posted April 19, 2019 How did they come up with the statistic that only 11.2% of the population in 1918 had this bone? Who was checking for it!? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccr8 Posted April 20, 2019 #6 Share Posted April 20, 2019 What a let down I thought we were getting our rib back. jmccr8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 20, 2019 #7 Share Posted April 20, 2019 So no human unicorns? This is not as exciting as i hoped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted April 20, 2019 Author #8 Share Posted April 20, 2019 33 minutes ago, freetoroam said: So no human unicorns? This is not as exciting as i hoped. they exist too https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/human-unicorns/ more https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&biw=1366&bih=635&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=AIa6XJv0MKuI1fAP9uu3gAc&q=humans+with+horns&oq=humans+with+horns&gs_l=img.3..0l2j0i8i30.290636.325070..326433...0.0..0.2520.9187.2-5j5-5j1j0j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i67j0i24.IQrZT8fJCHk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted April 20, 2019 #9 Share Posted April 20, 2019 7 hours ago, onlookerofmayhem said: How did they come up with the statistic that only 11.2% of the population in 1918 had this bone? Who was checking for it!? I don't doubt the story but I worked as an X-Ray tech for over a decade, imaged thousands of knees and never saw this in any of those images. Fascinating. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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