Re: Aquatic hominids


<richardparker01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Day Brown wrote:
[snip]

Were the hominids the meat eaters that has been assumed, we'd have teeth
much more like Baboons, with really sharp canines. But as it is, we have
flatter teeth with thicker dentine that would be able to withstand the
grit from sand and bits of seashell.

[snip]

Of course, the Egyptians might not have thought our molar surfaces were
quite so protective. The sand they added to the grain they ground wore
their teeth to the nubs while they were kind of young.

Of all our near cousins who has the thickest molar surfaces?

Jois


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