{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Why do babies have more bones than you?","description":"Have you ever wondered why babies have more bones than you, many more, and where they went? At birth, the human body has around three hundred separate bones, mostly cartilaginous. Over the first twenty years of life, those bones fuse together until only two hundred six remain. \r\n \r\nThe fusion is not a loss but a consolidation; each union welds two pieces into a stronger beam. An adult who returned to three hundred bones would not be able to stand due to the distribution of forces. The answer to what guides that process is not in the genes alone, but in the tension that each bone feels over years of everyday movement. \r\n \r\nIf mechanical tension carves the skeleton from within, then there is a principle that governs that carving in any material.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}