Bones and Growth in Human Anatomy

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The chapter delves into the interplay between bone sensations and weather changes, exploring experiences of feeling sensations 'in one's bones' and how they relate to personal anecdotes. It also discusses bone growth, growth plates in children, and factors influencing human height potential, such as diet and illness. Additionally, the conversation touches on evolutionary implications of tailbones and the absence of a penis bone in humans, shedding light on the functionality of these anatomical features.

Let's dig right into Spooktober with ... BONES. You're a steak-covered skeleton and it's nothing to fear. The amazingly kind and committed osteologist Dr. Daniel J. Wescott of Texas State University's famed Forensic Anthropology Research Center sits down -- surrounded by skulls and femurs and ribs -- and chats about how bones are formed, how they break, why they might hurt when the weather changes, what CSI gets wrong, how long it takes a body to decompose, looking for isotopes in found remains, cast iron coffins, skeleton myths, body donation, and more. Will Alie freak out, or will this exposure to hundreds of skeletons under one roof chill her out?

Also, dickbones: are they for winners or losers?

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