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Human teeth development changed sometime during the industrial revolution when women were expected to work outside the home and breastfeeding norms were shorten
by gregw2 8y ago
Human teeth development changed sometime during the industrial revolution when women were expected to work outside the home and breastfeeding norms were shortened from 3-4 years to more like 1 year. Or that's at least one interesting hypothesis from someone looking at old skulls.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoDo you have a reference for this school of thought?
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- ip26 8y agoDo you have anything supporting that? My observation has been the kid loses interest somewhere between 1-2 years- the moms aren't cutting them off. Solid food is generally much more interesting.