What are wisdom teeth?
By: Andrew
Civilizations in the ancient times had very differing diets than us. Instead of going to the grocery store, early human beings hunted and found and harvested any food they found out in the wild.
Feeding off food we wouldn’t imagine eating today such as leaves, roots, nuts. The food they ate was not so good on their teeth! In those days, dental hygiene was poor, and losing a tooth or two was common.
By the time a human had reached his/her 20s, it was not unexpected to have lost a tooth or two to decay. Without enough teeth, people would not have been able to chew the foods they found and starved.
Anthropologists believe early humans evolved in to developing wisdom teeth to survive and to make chewing easier, even if they were missing some teeth.
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