Scholars link diet, dentition, and linguistics

(University of Miami) University of Miami anthropologist Caleb Everett and former student Sihan Chen used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet--contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers--is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak. Their findings were published this week in Scientific Reports.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news