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by Spixxy on December 27th, 2003

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What are wisdom teeth for?

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  • by Morphius on April 14th, 2004

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    Wisdom teeth are used for the same thing the rest of your teeth are used for...to grind your food. But they were used more before the invention of fire and cooked food. The widom teeth are suited for grinding raw meat. But since we cook our food, we don't need them.

    Factoid#21 - Scientists say that eventually, we will lose our wisdom teeth since we don't need them. Evolution makes our mouths smaller as the wisdom teeth take longer and longer to grow in with each generation.

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    • The evolution bit is all wrong - even ridiculous.

      Anon

      by Anon on June 5th, 2005

    • Yeah, evolution doesn't "make" anything happen. Mutations have to happen randomly.

      Relsqui

      by Relsqui on June 7th, 2005

    • you are very right.... other adaptations are taking place also such as the non-use of the appendix!

      dddkitty

      by dddkitty on June 26th, 2005

    • Please support this so-called 'scientific fact' with scientific evidence.

      pareto

      by pareto on December 12th, 2005

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