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Babies have the proper breathing and posture. Chairs and stresses of the daily life is probably where the issue is.

• chubot 6y ago
  Babies have drastically different skulls, but there are infants who snore. My understanding is that this is increasingly common (if you ask doctors), and it's caused by the same anatomical problems that cause sleep apnea in adults. People used to think snoring is benign, but others will say that infants should never snore. The common adenoids surgery in children is also due to a small airway, although people will tell you it's because they have "large adenoids"! Your second sentence doesn't follow. Babies exhibit fewer of these problems, but that doesn't mean that evolutionary changes and agriculture aren't the cause of the problem in adults. Babies don't have developed jaws, and one of the main points is that jaw development isn't primarily genetic; it's shaped by the "environment" of the jaw, which is essentially the diet. If braces can shape the jaw, then so can 10 years of eating soft foods, industrial cooking, etc. See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024626