A longtime research associate in zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, Bill Schutt turns his expertise to teeth, taking readers on a journey through their natural, scientific, and cultural history.
Even the stories of less exotic teeth provide fascinating insight into evolutionary history ... Surprisingly, though, Schutt barely addresses the modern misery of overcrowded jaws and twisted teeth ... At times, Bite is larded with jargon, and the tales do wander occasionally ... But this arises from the forgivable sin of enthusiasm — an enthusiasm that’s infectious.
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.
