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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

84/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Bill Schutt

Publisher:

Algonquin Books

Date:

August 13, 2024

"A longtime research associate in zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, Bill Schutt turns his expertise to teeth, taking readers on a fascinating and sometimes creepy journey through their natural, scientific, and cultural history, arguing that tooth evolution has been the most important factor to vertebrate species' success"--

What The Reviewers Say

Sam Kean,
The New York Times Book Review
Even the stories of less exotic teeth provide fascinating insight into evolutionary history.
Christoph Irmscher,
The Wall Street Journal
The book’s unpredictable structure—in its first 80 pages alone, we hustle from bats to fish to horses to narwhals to snakes and back to fish—perfectly reflects its subject..

Kirkus
Delightful.

Publishers Weekly
Animated.