What ethnicities have the biggest teeths on average?

[Serbat14]

What ethnicities have the biggest teeths on average? Just wondering.

[Roy]

Certainly, many Germans who would stand out (in my country) or stand out for having big teeth, and facial expressions that make them visible so it might be them.



But otherwise ... it must be Papuans and Southeastern Asians on average. I am not familiar though with any research on this ropic.

[nittionia]

dutch have cheese teeth

[JosephK]

Funny you should ask, I was just working on this. Australian aborigines have the largest crown diameters among modern humans. But tooth size isn't a good indicator of human relationships or population history as it's highly variable. Ethnic mixing, even at a very local level, can possibly cause crowding and orthodontic problems due to large teeth appearing in genetically or environmentally small jaws.

BTW smallest are Lapps and San Bushmen.

[Ymyyakhtakh]

https://mathildasanthropologyblog.wo...in-crown-size/:



The measurements in the image above are not adjusted for body size, which causes the difference in tooth size among whites and East Asians to appear smaller.

I didn't find the full text of the paper anywhere, but here's the abstract:

Mesiodistal and buccolingual crown diameters of all teeth recorded in 72 major human population groups and seven geographic groups were analyzed. The results obtained are fivefold. First, the largest teeth are found among Australians, followed by Melanesians, Micronesians, sub-Saharan Africans, and Native Americans. Philippine Negritos, Jomon/Ainu, and Western Eurasians have small teeth, while East/Southeast Asians and Polynesians are intermediate in overall tooth size. Second, in terms of odontometric shape factors, world extremes are Europeans, aboriginal New World populations, and to a lesser extent, Australians. Third, East/Southeast Asians share similar dental features with sub-Saharan Africans, and fall in the center of the phenetic space occupied by a wide array of samples. Fourth, the patterning of dental variation among major geographic populations is more or less consistent with those obtained from genetic and craniometric data. Fifth, once differences in population size between sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, South/West Asia, Australia, and Far East, and genetic drift are taken into consideration, the pattern of sub-Saharan African distinctiveness becomes more or less comparable to that based on genetic and craniometric data. As such, worldwide patterning of odontometric variation provides an additional avenue in the ongoing investigation of the origin(s) of anatomically modern humans.

I think the reason why Caucasoids have the smallest tooth size (after adjusting for body size) is that they have been the most impacted by the human domestication syndrome, so they have become the most weak and gracilized. Domesticated animals also have smaller teeth than wild animals.

[Serbat14]

Certainly, many Germans who would stand out (in my country) or stand out for having big teeth, and facial expressions that make them visible so it might be them.



But otherwise ... it must be Papuans and Southeastern Asians on average. I am not familiar though with any research on this ropic.

Maybe Germans are the Europeans with the biggest teeths

[Jana]

DUTCH BY FAR!

[JosephK]

https://mathildasanthropologyblog.wo...in-crown-size/:



The measurements in the image above are not adjusted for body size, which causes the difference in tooth size among whites and East Asians to appear smaller.

I didn't find the full text of the paper anywhere, but here's the abstract:

Mesiodistal and buccolingual crown diameters of all teeth recorded in 72 major human population groups and seven geographic groups were analyzed. The results obtained are fivefold. First, the largest teeth are found among Australians, followed by Melanesians, Micronesians, sub-Saharan Africans, and Native Americans. Philippine Negritos, Jomon/Ainu, and Western Eurasians have small teeth, while East/Southeast Asians and Polynesians are intermediate in overall tooth size. Second, in terms of odontometric shape factors, world extremes are Europeans, aboriginal New World populations, and to a lesser extent, Australians. Third, East/Southeast Asians share similar dental features with sub-Saharan Africans, and fall in the center of the phenetic space occupied by a wide array of samples. Fourth, the patterning of dental variation among major geographic populations is more or less consistent with those obtained from genetic and craniometric data. Fifth, once differences in population size between sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, South/West Asia, Australia, and Far East, and genetic drift are taken into consideration, the pattern of sub-Saharan African distinctiveness becomes more or less comparable to that based on genetic and craniometric data. As such, worldwide patterning of odontometric variation provides an additional avenue in the ongoing investigation of the origin(s) of anatomically modern humans.

I think the reason why Caucasoids have the smallest tooth size (after adjusting for body size) is that they have been the most impacted by the human domestication syndrome, so they have become the most weak and gracilized. Domesticated animals also have smaller teeth than wild animals.

It's funny I forgot about that paper because it's showing that crown diameter essentially (on a global level) indicates the predicted pattern of global human migration.

[Voskos]

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Looks like Ainu people, Greeks and Negritos have the smallest teeth.

[Creoda]

Why would you write teeths?