The acclivity of agriculture allowed for the development of complex company and engineering science that probably would n’t have been possible otherwise . It also play mayhem on human wellness . And we can add a Modern downside to the list : our misshapen back talk .
That ’s the finding of University of Kent researcher Noreen von Cramon - Taubadel , who examined 295 human jaws from various museum specimens around the world . She found that , even adjust for climate , geographical , and genetic variation , a consistent design emerged : masses from farming societies have significantly pocket-sized sass that their counterparts in hunter - gatherer smart set .
In itself , that would n’t be such a bad matter , but the job is that we all have exactly the same number of teeth . Von Cramon - Taubadel speculates that agricultural societies tend to produce people with pocket-size jaw because the ground grains and processed animal products we eat are diffused than the barbaric plants and animate being wipe out by hunter - gatherers . In animal experiments , subjects feed a softer solid food diet originate smaller jaw than those fed tougher foods . This could well explain why dental crowding is so widespread , and why so many multitude end up needing to wear braces .
This is n’t really a case of development or selection – or else , it ’s that generations of agricultural humans have all tended to develop similar , low jaw because they were all evoke on the same flaccid dieting . This would be the first clear instance in which widespread anatomic difference of opinion in homo on this sort of musical scale are the result of life style factors , as opposed to simple genetic variation . To be sure , this does n’t represent a definitively proven link , but anyone who has ever wear brace is well within their rights to feel wild with the whole concept of agriculture right now .
ViaPNAS . Image by CeresB onFlickr .
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