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Lice genes date first human clothes
by Abaddon at 9:21 am EDT, Aug 20, 2003 |
] We started wearing clothes about 70,000 years ago - at least
] according to our lice genes. ] At that time the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) evolved
] from the head louse (P. humanus capitis), say Mark Stoneking and
] his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
] Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The split should correspond to
] the time when the body louse's habitat - clothes - became
] widespread. |
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RE: Lice genes date first human clothes
by bucy at 12:19 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2003 |
abaddon wrote:
] ] We started wearing clothes about 70,000 years ago - at least
]
] ] according to our lice genes.
]
] ] At that time the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
] evolved
] ] from the head louse (P. humanus capitis), say Mark Stoneking
] and
] ] his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
]
] ] Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The split should
] correspond to
] ] the time when the body louse's habitat - clothes - became
] ] widespread. I saw this too ... really clever! |
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