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… “Something is always going wrong with our teeth. They don’t last anything like a lifetime, usually.” …
It would be nice to say that the Law of Natural Selection…had taken care of the tooth problem, too. In a way it has, but its solution has been draconian. It hasn’t made teeth more durable. It has simply cut the average human life span down to about thirty years.
”Vonnegut, Galápagos
