No. Without surgery or some serious abnormality all human beings have 12 ribs.
No 160 or 260 both the same amount
They don't. Everyone has the same number of ribs.
Yes an average of 1 in 20 people have an "extra" rib
They can have up to something like 145 pairs of ribs.
more common in women than in men; it is thought to affect about 14% of adult women worldwide.
No. Aside from abnormalities, men and women have the same number of ribs.The normal number of ribs are 24 - twelve on the left and twelve on the right. There are some people who have more - up to 26 or 28 ribs, but these are usually vestigial ribs in the cervical region. These are abnormal and may frequently cause neck, back, or arm pain.
There is no exact number of bones in a human body. A typical adult human skeleton has about 206 bones. Young children have more bones than adults as some bones fuse with age. A common myth that women have more ribs than men is unfounded.
Snakes have more ribs than other animals - up to 400 pairs !
Women have 8 ribs, whereas men have 7. Christianity attempts to explain this through the story of the Garden of Eden, where God is said to have created Adam from dust, and then taken one of his 8 ribs and used it to create Eve.
There's a myth that girls have more 1 more rib than boys because Adam gave a Eve a rib. That may have been true for Adam and Eve, but everyone since that time, both men and women, have had 12 sets of ribs each. See the links below.
No. Â Women are just more discreet about it. A normal adult passes approximately 2 litres of flatulence or gas in 24 hours.
Floating ribs are more cartilage than bone so they are more accessible to being broken.
No, generally both men and women have the same number of ribs. Twelve pairs of flexible, archlike ribs form the lateral portions of the thoracic cage. They increase in length from the first to the seventh and then decrease again from the eighth to the twelfth.IIWeinreb, E. L. 1984. Anatomy and Physiology. Addison Wesley Publ. Co., Inc. Menlo Park, CA. p. 345.