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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!sagi.wistar.upenn.edu
  2. From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: Re: Bad design and vestigial organs
  5. Message-ID: <98714@netnews.upenn.edu>
  6. Date: 22 Nov 92 19:19:27 GMT
  7. References: <MMF=kw-@engin.umich.edu> <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> <1992Nov21.013411.17810@s1.gov> <By4oI3.Hv1@access.digex.com>
  8. Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
  9. Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
  10. Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
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  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: sagi.wistar.upenn.edu
  13. In-reply-to: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
  14.  
  15. In article <By4oI3.Hv1@access.digex.com>, huston@access (Herb Huston) writes:
  16. >>    Wisdom teeth. Our jaws are a bit small for these late-erupting
  17. >>teeth; some people have them, while others do not.
  18.  
  19. >And when they try to erupt, they're prone to impaction.
  20.  
  21. Which, before antibiotics and surgery, could be a killer.
  22.  
  23. Our mouths are also poorly designed regarding eating.  I don't know of
  24. any other animal that is capable of choking on its food.  Of course, we
  25. gained speech in this trade-off.
  26. -- 
  27. -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
  28.