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February 15, 2012 11:24 am at 11:24 am #851972
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Just a wild guess –

“7 cervical bones + 12 thoracic + 5 sacral bones which compose the spinal column. which equals 24 plus the coccyx”

Now take out the cervicals:

“12 thoracic + 5 sacral bones which compose the spinal column. which equals 17 plus the coccyx”

And we have 18.

Now the only problem is the border between the cervical and thoracic vertebrae isn’t all that clear… and I doubt in ‘those times’ they knew/made that difference.