Daily Telegraph: While the process of natural selection allowed humans to become much more advanced than other primates, it is also to blame for many of the maladies we suffer from today.
For all our success as a species, the problems we still experience as a result of our evolution demonstrates that humans are in fact “not very well designed”, researchers explained.
Our development of large and complex brains, for example, resulted in a narrowing of our mouths which in turn caused the pain of impacted wisdom teeth.
Similarly, when our ancestors began walking on two feet six or seven million years ago, they prompted skeletal changes which today result in bad backs.
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