https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lice-evolution-tracks-the-invention-of-clothes-123034488/

I'm not a fan of molecular dating -- not even just a little
bit -- but I appreciate the line of thinking -- the indirect
line of investigation.

This is old news, but maybe it's new to you.





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Op vrijdag 23 december 2022 om 01:06:03 UTC+1 schreef JTEM is so reasonable:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lice-evolution-tracks-the-invention-of-clothes-123034488/

I'm not a fan of molecular dating -- not even just a little
bit -- but I appreciate the line of thinking -- the indirect
line of investigation.

Thanks.
"The evolution of body lice shows that humans began wearing clothes between 50,000 to 200,000 years ago":
not fur loss, but clothes began c 200 ka = after we got the enzymes to convert MC-PUFAs into LC-PUFAs?

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JTEM is so reasonable wrote:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lice-evolution-tracks-the-invention-of-clothes-123034488/

I'm not a fan of molecular dating -- not even just a little
bit -- but I appreciate the line of thinking -- the indirect
line of investigation.

This is old news, but maybe it's new to you.

It's been mentioned in this group as far back as 2003

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.anthropology.paleo/c/EsCHF6KCuPs/m/WKiC1zpS_SoJ

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