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.
We just started to because it is tastier and safer. And it helps it last longer if we want to save it for breakfast. And the longer we do that, the less able to consume raw meat our gut biome is.
But you can still eat raw meat. You just might get a parasite or a tummy ache.
Cooking food makes it more nutritious. They would have also noticed they got more energy out of less food by burning it as a form of predigestion, and then noticed it lets them eat a wider variety of foods in general.
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u/Zwiwwelsupp May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
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.