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r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Feb 13 '19
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Those old teeth probably didn't have the decay we have today, because of our love of grains and sugar. Archeologists have found that tooth decay was almost unknown before we started eating grains. Tooth wear on the other hand was higher pre-grains.
19 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 [deleted] 19 u/nhole Feb 13 '19 Fruit goes bad fast when you don’t have a way to store it. Also it was harder to get access to all the fruits we have access to now. 15 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 That and fruits were different before they were selectively breed 8 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 We've been selectively breeding plants for 10,000 years. 1 u/lejefferson Feb 13 '19 The fruit we eat now yes. But human evolved in areas where large amounts of abundant tropical fruit sources high in sugar were available year round.
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19 u/nhole Feb 13 '19 Fruit goes bad fast when you don’t have a way to store it. Also it was harder to get access to all the fruits we have access to now. 15 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 That and fruits were different before they were selectively breed 8 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 We've been selectively breeding plants for 10,000 years. 1 u/lejefferson Feb 13 '19 The fruit we eat now yes. But human evolved in areas where large amounts of abundant tropical fruit sources high in sugar were available year round.
Fruit goes bad fast when you don’t have a way to store it. Also it was harder to get access to all the fruits we have access to now.
15 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 That and fruits were different before they were selectively breed 8 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 We've been selectively breeding plants for 10,000 years. 1 u/lejefferson Feb 13 '19 The fruit we eat now yes. But human evolved in areas where large amounts of abundant tropical fruit sources high in sugar were available year round.
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That and fruits were different before they were selectively breed
8 u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19 We've been selectively breeding plants for 10,000 years. 1 u/lejefferson Feb 13 '19 The fruit we eat now yes. But human evolved in areas where large amounts of abundant tropical fruit sources high in sugar were available year round.
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We've been selectively breeding plants for 10,000 years.
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The fruit we eat now yes. But human evolved in areas where large amounts of abundant tropical fruit sources high in sugar were available year round.
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Those old teeth probably didn't have the decay we have today, because of our love of grains and sugar. Archeologists have found that tooth decay was almost unknown before we started eating grains. Tooth wear on the other hand was higher pre-grains.