A new study posits that the evolution of chewing may have helped play a vital role in the evolution of humankind as a whole.
explores the current state of chewing. The study posits that human teeth, jaws, and muscles evolved to use less energy when chewing, allowing it to be expended elsewhere.How we chew things is actually extremely important for our bodies. You’ve probably heard the phrase “chew your food” more than once in your life. While it’s just good practice to keep from choking, chewing your food is also important for making the energy and nutrients within it accessible to your digestive system.
But the energy we expend chewing can’t be that great, right? It isn’t. In fact, the evolution of chewing hasn’t been studied that much because it takes so little energy, especially compared with other bodily tasks. But, that small amount of energy still counts for something, especially when you’re talking about evolutionary progression.Other species expend much more energy and spend much more time chewing each day.
To test how humans chew now, the researchers on the study gave participants sugar-free, flavorless gum. They then placed the participants inside a hooded machine that was able to monitor the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to help measure how much energy it took to chew the gum for 15 minutes.The researchers found that the participant’s metabolic rates were 15 percent higher when chewing the hard gum.
The evidence that the researchers discovered seems to indicate that the evolution of chewing helped play a vital role in over the eons. The changes that took shape in our faces not only allowed us to use less energy to chew, but also made biting easier. Another evolutionary change that helps us use less energy to sustain our bodies properly.Joshua Hawkins fell in love with writing and technology at a young age. Eventually he decided to combine the two and started writing about video games, the latest tech, and all the cool gadgets he could find.
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