What did people do in prehistoric times if something was lodged in their teeth? Surely animal sinews and husks of grains ended up crammed in between hominid teeth, tightly packed and relatively flat as they are.
My love for popcorn sparked this thought on the drive to work. Anyone who loves popcorn knows that it comes with a downside: getting tiny bits of kernel husk caught between the pearly whites (or the coffeed yellows, as the case might be). When brushing after eating popcorn, I’m a bit ashamed by the amount of kernels loosed from their cozy, gummy embedding.
It got me thinking further: humans are really poorly adapted to live in wilderness conditions. Yes, the Darwinists would argue that our big brains make up for our lack of power jaws, razor-sharp teeth, venomous chin sacks, natural swim fins, quick gazelle legs, and the like. As with many things, the Darwinists are half-right: our big brains do give humans a massive advantage over all other forms of life. Where the Darwinists are wrong is in how we got here.