Why Didn’t Our Ancient Ancestors Get Cavities?
1st May 2022
We can blame the agricultural revolution for accelerating tooth decay in humans – if we are to believe an article by three German researchers in the journal PLOS One.
“Caries is a common oral disease in humans, and has been for about 10 000 years. The disease is linked to the shift from hunters and gatherers to farmers. Until the late Palaeolithic period, modern humans rarely had caries,” the German researchers write in their article from 2018.
When humans went from hunting and gathering to farming, we started eating completely different foods.
Be a vegetarian! Have cavities! Lose your teeth!