Can you tell me why babies have 300 bones when they are born when there are 206 bones in an adults body?

Answer 1

new borns and babys have immature bodies yet.including their skeleton.their bones are not yet ossified or strong enough.that's why they have 300 which by time become more ossified and fusse together by cartilages to become 206 when they are adults.and that's why u gain ur height mainly during childhood when ur bones keep growing

Answer 2

Babies have to be squeezed out of a tight-fitting hole pretty early on. To make this a realistic option, we evolved to have several bones that are unfused at first, allowing increased bending and suppleness. Thing about it...you can bend your spine (with all it joints) better than you can bend your arm between the elbow and the shoulder, where there's only 1 bone.

Throughout life, especially early on, the bones will begin fusing together.

Answer 3

Babies have more bones, especially in their craniums, so the difficulty of childbirth can be survived. The bones then fuse together as they grow, ending with the average 206 bones.

Answer 4

all the bones in the head are seperate so that it can squeeze through the mother pelvic regoin. however, babies do not have knees. don't know why?