Jawbones are 'shaped by diet'

Diet has shaped human jaw bones, a result that could help explain why many people suffer with overcrowded teeth. The study has shown that jaws grew shorter and broader as humans took on a more pastoral lifestyle.

Before this, developing mandibles were probably strengthened to give hunter-gatherers greater bite force. The results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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