Hello
It occurred to me that human teeth are no longer fit for purpose and evolution has failed to keep up ?
What other part of the human body do you need to have examined and repaired by a specialist every year otherwise it will certainly decay and break ?
Presumably if someone didn't brush their teeth or visit a dentist at all then we can assume by the age of 40 all their teeth would fall out. This was fine in the stone age when we were all living in mud huts and there were no dentists, since by the age of 40 we would probably all of died of other causes anyway.
Perhaps by now, since we are living so much longer, evolution should have adapted our teeth to be much stronger and longer lasting. Imagine if we had teeth like a Rabbit that constantly keep growing and just need to be filed down once a year. If a tooth should break, then no problem it just grows back again!
Of course this is just food for thought, I have no immediate practical answers to this problem
It occurred to me that human teeth are no longer fit for purpose and evolution has failed to keep up ?
What other part of the human body do you need to have examined and repaired by a specialist every year otherwise it will certainly decay and break ?
Presumably if someone didn't brush their teeth or visit a dentist at all then we can assume by the age of 40 all their teeth would fall out. This was fine in the stone age when we were all living in mud huts and there were no dentists, since by the age of 40 we would probably all of died of other causes anyway.
Perhaps by now, since we are living so much longer, evolution should have adapted our teeth to be much stronger and longer lasting. Imagine if we had teeth like a Rabbit that constantly keep growing and just need to be filed down once a year. If a tooth should break, then no problem it just grows back again!
Of course this is just food for thought, I have no immediate practical answers to this problem