teeth

• early mammals developed 2 sets

61:1.10The mam­mals of the early Ceno­zoic lived on land, un­der the wa­ter, in the air, and among the tree­tops. They had from one to eleven pairs of mam­mary glands, and all were cov­ered with con­sid­er­able hair. In com­mon with the later ap­pear­ing or­ders, they de­vel­oped two suc­ces­sive sets of teeth and pos­sessed large brains in com­par­i­son to body size. But among them all no mod­ern forms ex­isted.

• human t. are gravitating toward 28

65:6.5The con­tin­u­a­tion of such bi­o­logic ad­just­ments is il­lus­trated by the evo­lu­tion of teeth in the higher Uran­tia mam­mals; these at­tained to thirty-six in man’s re­mote an­ces­tors, and then be­gan an adap­ta­tive read­just­ment to­ward thirty-two in the dawn man and his near rel­a­tives. Now the hu­man species is slowly grav­i­tat­ing to­ward twenty-eight. The pro­cess of evo­lu­tion is still ac­tively and adap­ta­tively in prog­ress on this planet.

• magical charms concocted from

88:5.2Mag­i­cal charms were con­cocted from a great va­ri­ety of things: hu­man flesh, tiger claws, croc­o­dile teeth, poi­son plant seeds, snake venom, and hu­man hair. The bones of the dead were very mag­i­cal. Even the dust from foot­prints could be used in magic. The an­cients were great be­liev­ers in love charms. Blood and other forms of bod­ily se­cre­tions were able to in­sure the magic in­flu­ence of love.