Pat, I think you are wrong about this. The statement was "our mouths 
have gotten smaller progressively through the generations"  - unless 
this is very badly written, and the author intends to report on 
individual changes in mouth size due to bottle feeding in infancy, it 
means that mouths in general have become smaller ie babies are 
actually born with smaller mouths these days, which is nonsense.

Heather Welford Neil, UK


>I don't think it is an evoluntionary change.  I think it is 
>individual changes in each person.  Not breastfed-bottlefed, mouth 
>develops and conforms  to a different shape and suck is different 
>than what a breastfed baby experiences in shaping of mouth &  jaw. 
>So in adulthood the mouth and jaw of the bottlefed baby  have a 
>different shape than that of another adult who was breastfed for a 
>couple of years.  Simple physics and dentists would be the ones 
>noticing differences, except that they aren't looking or only see 
>adult (bottlefed baby ) mouths.  Just my opinion.  Pat in SNJ (an 
>adult bottle fed baby mouth person with slight sleep apnea)
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