I'm watching an old episode of QI, and they mentioned our favourite uni. They are not looking at our profiles, but weighing heads instead.
Here's something from a website I found......
I couldn't find any references for this online, so I asked around my workplace (the Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney). The most convincing response came from the service room where the technical officers actually cut up the bodies:
"An adult human cadaver head cut off around vertebra C3, with no hair, weighs somewhere between 4.5 and 5 kg, constituting around 8% of the whole body mass."
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