How many bones does a normal human being have?

Question: How many bones does a normal human being have?
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Asked by 965ngrj1727 to Bernerd, Erick, Joseph, Ken, Peter on 5 Jul 2017.
- Bernerd Fulanda answered on 5 Jul 2017:
  
  There are 206 NAMED bones in a normal, complete, adult human skeleton.
  However, individual people / skeletons can have more than 206 bones including various small UN_NAMED bones that have formed, typically in high-friction areas of the body e.g. Sesamoid bones in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet or Sutural bones (tiny un-named bones found only within the sutural joints between cranial (skull) bones
- Joseph Olwendo answered on 5 Jul 2017:
  
  a child while born has 270 bones. by the time you become adult they reduce since some fuse together to roughly 206 bones
- Peter Nguhiu answered on 5 Jul 2017:
  
  ..and the reason why some bones are not fused together at the time of birth is mainly to allow the child to pass through the birth canal. For instance, 26 bones of the head and face end up fusing as the child grows to form the skull – that’s why a skull has those ‘ziggy zaggy’ lines on it…

Question: How many bones does a normal human being have?