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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Could you tell that camels have humps just by looking at their skeletons?

Like, say you had some archaeology students who were raised in a bunker and were taught everything about how to discern external anatomy from skeletal structure, but never taught that camels existed.

If they were given a camel skeleton, could they geuss that it had a hump?
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The short answer is "Probably not." 

The long answer is more complicated, and involves a necessary investigative device called inference. We can look to animals with fatty humps and look at their bones to determine if there's a correlated hard, bony feature with the soft, fatty feature. For the most part, the bony parts of camel skeletons look little different than deer or cattle skeletons do in these areas, and their humps are above the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, whereas the humps of other names, such as zebu cattle, are above their shoulders, where there are tall bony spines (which attach ligaments supporting the head, the nuchal system).

So, using this information, we infer merely based on similar skeletons, that fatty humps aren't likely to leave skeletal traces. But we can go a step further. We can *know* what relatives look like, and have bumped or unhumped versions, and infer the probability of the new skeleton having such a thing. If the probability is reasonable, we then can say there is a likelihood there was a hump.

However, the essential long answer is, "It depends."