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Were Our Teeth Always in Our Mouths? opus 399

21 July 2024 1510 Hours Diet, Anatomy, Evolution
As humans evolved, the diet changed from grass and leaves,
To the discovery of raw meat, and finally fire and cooking.
The once adaptive large teeth have not kept up in their reduction
With the evolving smaller jaw--
And thus present-day crowding and molar extractions!
But from where did our teeth today evolve?
Two thoughts on the subject--odontodes--
Tooth-like structures found in the throat of Hagfish
Or the odontode structures on the rough skin of sharks!
Whichever finally proves to be correct,
The present-day teeth in our mouths
In the wonderful smile we see today
could never have been foreseen in their original state.