How many bones?

[hotdog]

How many different bones are there in the human body? Male and female?

[ollie]

There are 206 bones in a man's body and 208 in a woman's because they've also got a couple of floating ribs. As for how many different bones, I suppose you'd just half each number, as the bones on one side of the body are naturally the same as their counterparts on the other side.

[sabrinah]

Men and women have the same number of bones,. The story about women having an extra rib is a myth with biblical origins. At birth humans have about 300 bones, which reduces to 206 by adulthood largely due to fusion of bones in the skull and spine.

[Ginbottle]

It is not 103 as ollie stated. That works OK for the limbs ears & ribs but what about the vertebrae, jaw, skull and sternum.