[DBtoo]

Interesting article. The business about the teeth caught my attention. I have wondered how it is that when you see ancient skulls, they always seem to have strait teeth. I'm starting to wonder if crooked teeth is a modern phenomena. Perhaps people used to have much wider jaws, therefore their teeth would fit better with more room?

I wonder if among some humans, jaws started shrinking (as an evolutionary change? or mutation?) and the teeth didn't quite catch up, or shrink up in time. I had really crooked teeth as a kid and had to wear braces, as many children these days do. It's just wierd though, I've never seen an old skull with crowded, crooked teeth. There's probably a reason but that information has gone into hiding probably, along with a lot of other anthropological research and discoveries, as that goes against our blindly PC society.

[Ahban]

A teacher told me 20 years ago that Scandanavians all had straight teeth, and that a lot of peoples do, but the mixing of ethnic groups seems to produce teeth that are mismatched with the jaws.

[redhead]

"Interesting article. The business about the teeth caught my attention. I have wondered how it is that when you see ancient skulls, they always seem to have strait teeth. I'm starting to wonder if crooked teeth is a modern phenomena. Perhaps people used to have much wider jaws, therefore their teeth would fit better with more room?"

Find a copy of the book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," by Weston A. Price, DDS. It will answer ALL your questions. Includes photographs.

[Smocker]

I read somewhere bottle feeding versus breastfeeding is the difference for some of the crooked teeth problems of modern first world countries. Much less incidence of crooked teeth where mothers nurse their young.