date:Mar 11, 2016
jaws, teeth, and chewing muscles that occurred during human evolution.
In the study, the researchers asked volunteers to chew raw goat meat to approximate the toughness and texture of the game that early humans ate and used instruments attached to their jaws to measure the effort involved.
What we found was that humans cannot eat raw meat effectively with their low-crested teeth. When you give people raw goat, they chew and chew and chew, and most of the goat is still one big clumpit's like ch