[Avodah] Do gentiles have more teeth than Jews? Do they have less?

[Yitzchok Levine]

 From 
http://parsha.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-gentiles-have-more-teeth-than-jews.html

There is a famous position of Aristotle.
Why have men more teeth than women?
By reason of the abundance of heat and blood which is more in men 
than in women.
-- "<http://www.exclassics.com/arist/arist37.htm>Of the Teeth.", Aristotle

And the following from Bertrand Russell:
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although 
he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this 
statement by examining his wives' mouths.
<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Bertrand_Russell/>Bertrand 
Russell, Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

As someone noted in a comment recently, Rav Kanievsky similarly 
believes that Jews differ physically from gentiles in the number of 
teeth, on the basis of a midrash Talpiyot combined with another 
rabbi's testimony. Midrash Talpiyot was authored by Rabbi Eliyahu ben 
Shlomo Avraham, and was published in 1698

Yitzchok Levine 
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