In 1977, Brace published an article that put the age of the Western overbite at no more than two hundred and fifty years which is to say that flatware and, with it, a significant change in how we chewed were all it took for the edge-to-edge occlusion that we inherited from the Neanderthals to be replaced by the bite we now call normal.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One??s Own