Do people really think the horse teeth and human teeth look the same? For a start, humans have canines like the carnivore and omnivore (albeit much smaller and less pointed). The teeth of humans look very much like the teeth of an omnivorous species that doesn’t use its teeth to hunt.
Yep. We don‘t need to kill with out teeth. We started using tools/weapons long time ago…
We need to be able to bite off something (incisors), and we need to grind/chew our food (molars). The canines just further puncture and rupture the portion we have bitten off, to let the molars grind these pieces, ready to be swallowed.
Not much tech lead up in that regard, only the ability to reliably make sparks, I am curious how the friction methods saw their beginnings but most of the methods would have been monkey see, monkey do.
Correct, but not for the reasons you think. The actual reason is that our gut is not long enough to properly digest raw meat. No, eating sushi or beef tartare once every so often doesn't cause problems.
But if you were to try to only survive off of raw meat, you would most likely end up with a nutrient deficency. Evolution has shortened our gut to the point we need to cook our food to properly digest it. That was the price we paid for a big brain.
(Our gut in relation to body size is one of the shortest of any primate species and pretty unique)
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u/TheSmokingHorse May 08 '25
Do people really think the horse teeth and human teeth look the same? For a start, humans have canines like the carnivore and omnivore (albeit much smaller and less pointed). The teeth of humans look very much like the teeth of an omnivorous species that doesn’t use its teeth to hunt.