The widespread vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) truly has fewer tooth than most bats
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Chew
Invoice Schutt (Algonquin Books)
Our evolutionary historical past bears the chew marks of our tooth. And never simply on our outcrop of the mammalian divergence, however throughout an unlimited vary of animals, extinct and extant, backboned and never, evolutionary growth has been formed, gnawed, chewed and chomped by tooth. Dentition is future.
This is likely one of the most arresting concepts in zoologist Invoice Schutt’s Chew: An incisive historical past of tooth, from hagfish to people – an interesting trans-species chronicle of tooth of…
