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Lice tell mankind's story
Email: Nick Atkinson - nwa@entangled.org News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20041005-01
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A new study of the phylogeny of human head and body lice provides evidence that Homo sapiens once made direct physical contact with a more archaic lineage. The findings, published in PLoS Biology this week, show how humans' evolutionary past can be pieced together by understanding what happened to our closely co-adapted parasites, say the authors.
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