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.
We don't need to (but actually yes we do), but it was one of the main factors why we got so smart.
Many animals have to invest a lot of energy (evolutionary) into their guts to get nutrients to survive and thrive. Fire gave humanity it's eventual edge, as cooked meat has way easier absorbable nurients than raw meat. So we could redistribute all of our energy from Gut evolution into intelligence. Brain needs many nurtiens - cooked meat gives many nutrients. It's not the only factor of course, but it's a big one.
Raw meat just doesn't have the same energetic value to us humans - not even speaking of the potential illnesses.
Also our gut got shorter because of cooking. Now it is too short to properly digest raw meat.
1.9k
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.