To
quote Wikipedia, in mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called
fangs… those relatively long pointed teeth… are developed and are used
primarily for firmly holding food in order to tear it apart…”
To cut the story short, they are necessary for the survival of the
carnivores, better known as “meat-eater”. We human, by being omnivores are
unavoidably also carnivores, but… lo and behold, unless we have warewolfish or draculian blood cursing in our
veins, we do NOT have fangs, those long pointed teeth. There is a reason for
that, and Linus Pauling, the twice Nobel Prize winner, found what it was.
For millions of years, man was happy, as were his devoted wives and
children, to keep themselves alive by masticating fruit, seeds, and whatever he
or she could extract as free gift from the soil, which did not require teeth
other than (8) incisors and (12) molars. For millions of years we have cut our
food with those sharp frontal teeth, then ground them with the molars to
initiate the digestive process that kept us alive, yes, for millions of
years.
We had no need for fangs. There are herbivores and
carnivores populating this ball of dust, and we, mammalians, evolved on the
herbal side. Perhaps we had no desire to tear fresh meat apart from the bone.
And then man got greedy.
We wanted to get fat, then obese to impress our neighbour. We wanted
to show off our rotund stomach to show, publicly, how well-off we were. Until
that moment in history, we put our teeth to good use. In addition to chewing on
whatever could be handled by our fangless dentures, we used them for love
bites, sucking on (primitive) lollipops, or just using them to display wide,
probably brown, smiles.
As a side issue, by replacing micronutrients, which are only
found in abundance in vegetables and fruit, with fats from meat products, we
lost the only food that is imperative for developing and sustaining our immune
system. Hence, cancer, arthritis, rheumatism and other autoimmune diseases
slowly but truly came into their own. And our immunological system, which
nature developed for us over millions of years, fell into disrepute.
And the funniest thing of all is that we only have our
voracious, insatiable, unquenchable, unappeasable, prodigious, uncontrollable,
compulsive, gluttonous, rapacious greed for food to blame. Well, that, and
perhaps just a mental aberration?
Heroes in my books do not bite each other, nor do they tear
other people/animals apart with their fangs. I leave that to aficionados of
vampire books, who dedicate their talents to more carnivorous minds. More about
Linus Pauling and other wise men in my book below.
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