Re: Article: Neanderthals Grow Fast, Die Young

From: firstjois (firstjoisyike_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:47:50 -0400

deowll wrote:
[snip]

>> I think that in Hsn that the wisdom teeth were still working molars
>> and this problem didn't exist normally speaking. There my be a few
>> Hss populations in which this would be true as well.
>>
>> I seem to recall that shrinking teeth and wisdom problems seems to
>> go along with farming and the availability of easily eaten high
>> density foods.
>>

Close - the teeth didn't shrink enough to compensate for our shrinking
heads - that's why a lot of us do get our wisdom teeth pulled or surgically
removed. And it is tied into changes that occurred with agriculture, we
got smaller with poorer diets. Jaws no longer large enough to hold the
full number of teeth, wisdoms get trapped in situ and may or not cause
problems. There was a lovely bit somplace about how Europeans who do not
get all 4 wisdom teeth are "further evolved" than the rest of us.

Jois

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