Cook Monkeys

Here’s your food/science link for the day: New Scientist Breaking News - Human ‘dental chaos’ linked to evolution of cooking. We haven’t been cooking many big projects as of late due to enormous amounts of work. But we do have a rather large turkey in our freezer so hopefully we’ll get to that within a month.

Crooked and disordered teeth may be the result of people having evolved to eat relatively mushy cooked food, suggests new research.

The disarray may have developed because evolutionary pressures affecting the size and shape of both the front teeth and jaw conflict with those influencing the back teeth. This means that there is often not enough space in the human jaw to accommodate all our teeth.