Konnie Huq

Back in humanity's hunter-gatherer days, you only ate meat if you'd recently made a kill, which required a huge amount of effort, and was therefore relatively rare. There's a reason humans only have one set of incisors to rip our meat apart: we're not supposed to eat the stuff at every meal.

British Celebrity

Vermin Supreme

For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.

American Artist

Walter Bagehot

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

English Author

The word 'incisor' refers specifically to front teeth, not molars or canines.

Location Specific

'Incisor' comes from a Latin word meaning 'to cut', explaining their use in biting and slicing food.

Function Clue

Don't confuse 'incisor' with 'wisdom tooth', which is a type of molar.

Common Confusion

 In modern humans, the third molar is typically the smallest, while the first molar is the biggest, but Homo naledi has the primitive condition where the third molar is the biggest and the first molar is the smallest. The anterior teeth, or the incisors and canines, are small for the genus Homo,

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 lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are

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 and this is where their long razor sharp and continuously growing incisor teeth take over they make short work of chewing through the wood to the tunnel beneath and then that peculiar finger really comes into its own and gotcha

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 positively identify that that guy there is definitely the mohawked male or snarly when he opens his mouth you can see that he's bottom incisors are all sort of crooked and that is a defining characteristic of him and that only

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 And then we found, during the course of the excavation a few, tiny, rodent incisors, mixed into the sediment. And nothing else. Nothing but hominids. Now, we had on the team world experts in many, many different things.

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 and they're born with incisors and really sharp teeth and their eyes open and as soon as they're born they're fighting one another but by the time they get to this stage it's all sorted they already know who's

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 here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the bark from a fallen tree trunk and nibble at it while still being close enough to water to slip away should a bear or a mountain lion turn up

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 they're chasing the reins which feed these grasses if you look at the woodley's they have these really significant incisor rose and loose lips that's to help them rapidly eat that

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 the distance they can swim by digging channels that lead into the very heart of the woodland here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the

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 Here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the bark from a fallen tree trunk and nibble at it, while still being close enough to water,