Re: Article: Human 'dental chaos' linked to evolution of cooking

From: John Roth (newsgroups_at_jhrothjr.com)
Date: 02/24/05


Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:38 -0600


"Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7035
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> Crooked and disordered teeth may be the result of people having evolved
> to eat relatively mushy cooked food, suggests new research.

When does the characteristically small jaw show up in the fossil record?
I don't have enough data at hand to determine if this is actually a good
correlation.

John Roth