{"id":254917,"date":"2024-08-16T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/bite-review-an-engrossing-history-of-teeth-shows-their-key-role-in-evolution\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:17","slug":"bite-review-an-engrossing-history-of-teeth-shows-their-key-role-in-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/bite-review-an-engrossing-history-of-teeth-shows-their-key-role-in-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite review: An engrossing history of teeth shows their key role in evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) actually has\u00a0fewer teeth than most bats<\/p>\n

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Bill Schutt (Algonquin Books)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our evolutionary history bears the bite marks of our teeth. And not just on our outcrop of the mammalian divergence, but across a vast range of animals, extinct and extant, backboned and not, evolutionary development has been shaped, gnawed, chewed and chomped by teeth. Dentition is destiny.<\/p>\n

This is one of the most arresting ideas in zoologist Bill Schutt\u2019s Bite: An incisive history of teeth, from hagfish to humans<\/i> \u2013 an engaging trans-species chronicle of teeth of\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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