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Change is perhaps accelerating, especially since the invention of agriculture, writing and more recently the Industrial Revolution.

Eg nowadays almost everyone has the 'modern overbite', ie the top front teeth extend in front of the bottom front teeth.

See eg https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2013/did-forks-real...

The article explicitly blames forks, but people in Song China had a modern overbite long before Europeans invented forks. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbite#Changing_human_dentit... and https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/181554755777/deadcatwit...




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