The Wisdom of Teeth

Ancient human teeth can tell us a lot. Hidden inside each set are clues about their owner's behavior and ancestry plus hints about what really made up the paleo diet. Shara Bailey, associate professor of anthropology at New York University, reads the topography of teeth to better understand the origins and lineages of humans. You can even test your own teeth to see if you have the same bumps and grooves as your ancestors.

Produced and Narrated by Emily V. Driscoll
Filmed by Jeff Nash

Music by Audio Network
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Thanks to Cara Biega and James Devitt

[unho]

I'm curious what kind of things she would talk about with her dentist

[Manfromron]

Thank You SCIFRI !
Always lovely and enlightening.

[felinefokus]

I just wana know how they cleaned their teeth? If they ever did.

[antony-lltp]

Im here after watching Versailles and heard that King louis xiv had bad teeth. History just kick in how the ancestors handled oral health

[radhikakumar]

7:30 ku dosa.
12:30 ku lunch
8:00 ku dinner
En ammakum athuthan. Enakkum athuthan. En appakum athuthan. En thangai kun athuthan. :)

[crunk_lean]

To think that our bodies end up so different due to us people living in different geographical environments. Meanwhile our brains are not altered at all whereas teeth, bone structure and pigmentation differ radically. The human mind is an enigma.

[reececrump]

i bet agriculturalsits teeth were inferior to the hunter gatherers becuse farmers lived long enough for those cavitys to develope. the natural human life span is really short, and our baby teeth and adult teeth can only last that natural human lifespan while left unprotected by frequent cleaning

[beatrizrosa]

1 Corinthians 3:18-21 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;

1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

All subjects and conceptions that you have through your own thoughts or formed through man theories are superficial discernment and lies created by humans to try to convince themselves that they have some explanation for everything. However, the Creation is infinity and God is Almighty, inasmuch who is capable to understand all His marvelous works? Nobody.

I want to know if your vain thoughts and depravation will continue when you die and go to hell... It is too much perversion and foolishness in this wicked and corrupted world! Everything is regarding pride, vanity, egoism and sensuality, what a disgrace!!!

2 Thessalonians 1:9 - Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.


There is a hell waiting for you when your soul come out of your body, where the worm never dies and the fire never ends! This will be for all eternity, since time and space do not have in the Spiritual Realm, because these concepts are from the earthly plane.