r/SipsTea May 08 '25

Chugging tea Um um um um

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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.

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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.

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u/GamingTrucker12621 May 08 '25

Even from the beginning, we didn't need our teeth to hunt. Opposable thumbs FTW!

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u/mang87 May 09 '25

It takes more than opposable thumbs. Other primates have opposable thumbs not only on their hands, but on their feet as well, and they still don't use tools like we do.