>>19078653>https://whyy.org/segments/could-old-skulls-help-us-understand-why-we-have-crooked-teeth/>Monge is a paleoanthropologist, so she looks for evidence in skeletons and fossils.>She’s studied skulls across the ages and along the way, she and colleagues in the field noticed something: “Nobody in the past had dental problems, like we are talking nobody,” she said.>(A fun fact: most mammals in the wild have straight teeth too.)>Monge isn’t talking about cavities; she wants to demonstrate how straight teeth used to be. For the proof, she sends an intern to the Penn Museum mummy room to find a specimen from the Hasanlu dig site in Iran.>The skull is from a person who lived maybe 5,000 years ago. And yet it has a Hollywood smile. Straight, white, symmetrical. Two little rectangles at the front. Long eye-teeth at the sides. And wisdom teeth—sitting pretty in the back.>“It’s like the upper jaw, the maxilla, and lower jaw the mandible are actually kind of perfectly in unity with each other and the interesting thing is that was everybody in human history,” Monge said.It seems more and more to me that what we would call Chads and Stacys were just normal people back then. To be a Chad is not about being an Übermensch but reattaining your normal appearance as a human being.
