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🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Where do teeth come from and how do different dental variations in the animal world force us to rethink our glorious chompers? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore dental evolution and the wondrous marching molars of elephants and manatees.
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| 1:53.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff To Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:57.0 | And I'm Joe McCormick, and if you've been listening to this show, you know we just had our friend Katie Golden from Creature Feature on the episode right before this one, where we talked about teeth with Katie, and that was a lot of fun, but Robert, I couldn't stop thinking about teeth. |
| 2:14.0 | Oh, yeah, I mean teeth are weird teeth are wonderful and strange and grotesque. I was actually just at the dentist yesterday for a checkup, and I just kept thinking about just how weird it is that I just regularly go to this place and pay another human being to reach into my mouth with special instruments and clean my weird bone like jaw petitions. |
| 2:37.0 | The outside bones outside bones never forget your teeth are outside bones their bones that you wash. |
| 2:42.7 | Oh, this is from a chemistry. Yeah, Titus and Ramadon sings that song. I think he's auditioning for like a chewing gum commercial. |
| 2:50.0 | But he's actually wrong. I'm sorry to say, despite how much I love that moment from the show teeth are not outside bones. They are not bones at all. They're a totally different thing. We can explain that in a minute, but. |
| 3:02.0 | Yeah, I mean, let's go ahead and get into it. So yeah, our teeth are bone like in many respects, but they are not bones. So just for an example, bones are composed of calcium, phosphorus, sodium and other minerals. |
| 3:14.0 | And but mostly it's the protein collagen that forms the living, growing collagen framework in bones. |
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