Evolution Behind Your Smile – Part 3 Why humans lost regenerative teeth, and what we can learn from animals that didn’t Introduction: The Envy of shark teeth regeneration As a practicing dentist, I often encounter a recurring daydream—not the clichéd…
Evolution Behind Your Smile – Part 2 What Does the Red Queen Have to Do with Your Mouth? There’s a curious principle in evolutionary biology that explains why bacteria in your mouth never seem to go away—no matter how well…
Evolution Behind Your Smile – Part 1 This post is the beginning of a twenty-part series titled “Evolution Behind Your Smile.” Across these essays, I explore how our teeth, jaws, and oral biology tell the deeper story of human evolution—one…
