Seems pretty dumb in our biological design to not be able to regenerate such a functional (and also easily breakable) part of our body.
Seems pretty dumb in our biological design to not be able to regenerate such a functional (and also easily breakable) part of our body.
People like me have only one problem with what you just said, and it’s called “Bruxism”.
Not really? Bruxism is heavily linked with stress and anxiety, which we have too much of in our contemporary society (meaning: a drop of water in our whole evolutionary history), and it’s very rarely going to incapacitate anyone, so evolution doesn’t care, and has cared even less before civilization.
Well, if you make it to breeding age, and successfully do so, then it really doesn’t matter from a species perspective. If you don’t, then whatever traits led to the grinding are weeded out, so that’s also irrelevant to the species in a different way. Also, there are treatments to help with bruxism. It isn’t something that can’t at least be managed to reduce the speed of damage.