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ellen_fremedon's fault i'm even asking this question.
The human hyoid bone is both isolated and unique -- that is, it does not articulate with any other bone in the human body, and it is the only bone of which this is true.
What I'm trying to think up is other things that are either isolated or unique -- for instance, say there are several types of tree that grow only at X elevation or on Y island or in soil where some mineral or other is present; or, like, is gold the only elemental metal that doesn't tarnish? (I doubt it, but you see what I'm getting at, right?)
Ideally, things in this column will be either isolated or unique but not both; and they'll be vegetable or mineral -- or animal, but not human. (not sentient, even.) Anyone have any thoughts? (It's fine if the thing -- or its solitude or uniqueness -- is mythical or legendary.) Cheers --
What I'm trying to think up is other things that are either isolated or unique -- for instance, say there are several types of tree that grow only at X elevation or on Y island or in soil where some mineral or other is present; or, like, is gold the only elemental metal that doesn't tarnish? (I doubt it, but you see what I'm getting at, right?)
Ideally, things in this column will be either isolated or unique but not both; and they'll be vegetable or mineral -- or animal, but not human. (not sentient, even.) Anyone have any thoughts? (It's fine if the thing -- or its solitude or uniqueness -- is mythical or legendary.) Cheers --