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Ponder that when you have impacted wisdom teeth. Teeth are a good argument against intelligent design as well!
Actually the "technology" behind wisdom teeth is quite smart. How many organisms feature resources timed to "spring" 20 or 30 years from birth, to replace lost "components"? You experience them as painful because your teeth don't rot as they used to; until the XX century, it was common for people to lose many of their teeth by the age of 30, so they were grateful for an extra set. They'd probably be dead before 45 an…
Not sure if it's a good resource or not and I can't see to even find which book it was. But I recall reading a Dickens description of toothache. I'm not sure that the tooth-rotting-out-to-make-space-for-more-teeth experience or yore was anything other than deeply unpleasant.