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On 08/05/2024 06.20, Mickmane wrote:We need to adapt shark technology to humans. Three rows of teeth with new teeth being constantly generated as the old teeth fall out.On 08.05.24, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:This apparently was the case by 1958, when Asimov wrote "The Ugly Little Boy".
>So I?m making my way through The Best of L Sprague de Camp, and I>
just (re)read ?The Gnarly Man?. It made me wonder ... well, first a
quick summary for context:This story was written in 1939 and is set in 1956. It?s about an[...]
immortal Neanderthal - basically he stopped aging around the age of
33. He most definitely looks the part, and he?s intelligent,
articulate, knowledgable, knows dozens of languages, etc etc etc,
>And this made me wonder:>
Given his obvious physical differences, and with modern technology
and communication being what it is, are there ways he could he stay a
member of modern society and also avoid attention?
Modern reconstructions of Neanderthals wouldn't have them stand out at
all.
Presumably, the friction involved in chewing would do the trick. Unlike[2] He also invented soup, by necessity, since his teeth wore out and>
he hadn?t invented false teeth yet.
With your description of the book (which I don't know), I'm now
wondering how his teeth wore out, but not the rest of his body.
most of the body, teeth aren't self-repairing.
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