Scheffler thinks this is because even the most avid sports fans actually devote very little time to practising. The slight overbite of modern humans has shaped the way we speak - easing the production of "f" and "v" sounds Credit: Alamy. As an anthropologist, she was keen to find out to if it was possible to tell where one was from, just by looking at its shape.
In her quest for an answer, Cramon-Taubadel had been scouring the collections of museums from all over the world for skulls to compare, and painstakingly measuring them. It was indeed the case that, on the whole, you could tell roughly where a skull was from, and who its owner was related to, just from its shape.
It soon became clear that instead of being determined by genetics, the shape of the jaw was mostly affected by whether that person had grown up in a hunter-gatherer society, or a community that relied on farming.
In modern, farming-based societies where the food is soft and palatable, we can wolf down a meal without needing to mash it up much first. Cramon-Taubadel says the impact chewing can have on the lower face is actually fairly subtle to the naked eye. Incredibly, it now seems that the changes to our jaws and teeth have had one welcome side effect at least — on the way that we speak. Rather than having bites, like we do now, where the upper incisors upper front teeth covered the lower ones, previously adults would have had bites where they met instead.
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