Re: Wisdom Teeth in Fossil Record

[dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>>
Wisdom teeth are specifically a Homo sapiens thing - basically, our snouts
are too short for our third molars, but we haven't gotten around to losing
them yet.  Except for a few lucky individuals such as yourself and those of
us who've had them taken out the hard way, of course.  And in a few people,
they erupt normally and function as normal molars.<<
  I haven't grown my wisdom teeth yet, so I don't know---do they just hurt or
do they actively impare chewing?
How did people deal with wisdom teeth before we started pulling them out?

Dan