Here I cannot desist from making a few points in passing about those people who try to prove on the basis of the teeth that man is created to eat all kinds of things. They claim that man has teeth such as the incisors that resemble those of the fructivores like the hare or rabbit or squirrel, canines like those of the carnivorous dog and cat, and molars like those of the herbivorous cow and horse. But I do not find this reasoning wholely satisfactory. In the first place, if we examine the incisors, they will be found to be quite different from those of the gnawing animals such as the mouse and the hare, in which animals these teeth are set at an obtuse rather than a right angle – unlike our incisors which are vertical and have points that meet. Theirs, therefore, can be very long: witness the teeth of the beaver. Certain carnivorous animals also have incisors like…[gap in manuscript]. We have canines, and I consider them important even though we have no more than 4 of them. Our molars do not place us close to the herbivores even though oxen and cows also have them, since dogs, cats and indeed all the carnivores have molars. I have never yet seen a specimen of the herbivores that has only a single stomach or which does not ruminate – and the whole family of mice are no exception to this.