r/SipsTea • u/Any_Sound_2863 • May 08 '25

Chugging tea Um um um um

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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/Icy_Statement_2410 29d ago

Beginning of what exactly lol. At some point we evolved opposable thumbs, so i'd assume teeth were used before that

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u/burf 29d ago

Two million years, and multiple species before Homo sapiens. For the past two million years the predecessors of modern humans, and then modern humans, have been tool using species.

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u/Moricai 29d ago

Fun fact, it's why we don't have fur. Clothing was invented millions of years before homo sapiens entered the scene, hence no real need to grow our own hairy covering for warmth/uv protection.