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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago

It's already a thing and causes issues, currently.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/hyperdontia

I'd like to understand the proposed mechanism for controlling it. If we weren't so close to self-extinction, maybe evolution would have time to better perfect the phenomenon.