“They were small, but their morphology was identical to that of naturally forming teeth,” says Yelick. Since then, she and her colleagues have been working toward growing human teeth in the la ...

Over millions of years, possibly in response to dietary changes, the teeth became smaller. We modern humans use them to bite food and open ... Neanderthal DNA makes up a small percentage of ...

ATEN-POUND bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human ... and the teeth between these ends and the joint or fulcrum, so that a powerful bite could be obtained with a very small ...