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Regarding the anatomy of the foot, there are 26 bones, 30 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments in each foot. Bones in your feet, like other long bones, have growth plates.
Reid Reimers of SciShow explained how humans evolved from certain ancestral species to have 26 bones reside in the feet. This is one quarter of all human bones. It turns out that this incredible ...
A joint is held together by ligaments which give the joints their stability. Cartilage is found at the ends of bones and where joints meet. Tendons attach muscles to the skeleton. Synovial joints ...
Some years ago, a beat cop patrolling our streets was called a flatfoot. Was this because they developed a flattened foot from walking the pavement all day? That particular variation on human anatomy ...