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A sweet tooth gave ancient primates a mouthful of woe

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Even without fizzy drinks and sweets, an extinct primate had the same dental problems as modern humans, according to fossils — providing the earliest known evidence of mammals with cavities1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02475-w

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    Selig, K. R. & Silcox, M. T. Sci. Rept. 11, 15920 (2021).

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