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!

RE: Lice genes date first human clothes