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Because like the elbow, the knee is a hinge joint. It has a groove in it that keeps the movement in single plane. This makes the musculature required to articulate the joint simpler.
To move in more than one plane a joint needs either many bones in it (like the wrist), or has to be a ball and socket construction with muscles all round it to pull it in many directions (like the hip or shoulder).
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