Why an uneven number of ribs

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Why an uneven number of ribs.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1312.2

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LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 83 Nos. 21, 22. Tahltan: Teit JAFL XXXII 226 (floating ribs).

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Filed under Origin of human skeleton.

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