Are you sure about that? We lost so many teeth after the industrialisation of sugar production (machines and slavery) but I’m not sure how bad it was before then.
Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry
Limonene@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pre-dentistry, a bunch of your teeth would have fallen out before your wisdom teeth came in. There would have been space for the wisdom teeth so they wouldn’t need to come in sideways.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
shortypig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And our teeth really went downhill after we started reproducing without the quality check provided by survival of the fittest. The remains of hunter gatherers generally have very nice teeth.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t follow the logic. Human teeth would be better if more children died? That “quality check” only applies if an organism dies before mating, which happens usually around teenage years for humans.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nah.
There seems to be a genetic variation that eliminates some or all wisdom teeth. It arose in Asia so long ago that the people who populated North and South America also had it. And in most populations it is still not very prevalent (less than 50%). Despite having been around for ages.
deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My mom only had the lower two wisdom teeth, none on top.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had to get my wisdoms out before all the baby teeth came out so pre-dentistry I’d have been fucked.
superkret@feddit.org 1 day ago
If you’d been fucked (and reproduced), your shitty teeth genes would have made it into the next generation.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
We used to have larger mouths, they’ve been shrinking as we evolved
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage
Lyrl@lemm.ee 1 day ago
No genetic changes (evolution) happened. If as children we ate only very tough meat and lots of chewy vegetables - no bread or rice or potato softness - our same genetics would result in much larger adult jaws.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
That’s right, my bad
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Gonna feed my kid nothing but well-done steaks and tree bark for the jaw gainz.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 day ago
How are we supposed to be taken seriously in glactic politics if we can’t chomp aliens in a few thousand years.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Don’t worry, humans are space orcs
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I haven’t had my wisdom teeth extracted because my doctor said my mouth was big enough. The only real issue is brushing them so I have to clench my mouth almost shut to even reach them while brushing.
I never got all the fun drugs though.