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Lice genes date first human clothes

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Garments appeared 70,000 years ago, suggests parasite DNA.

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  1. Kittler, R., Kayser, M. Stoneking, M. Molecular evolution of Pediculus humanus and the origin of clothing. Current Biology, 13, 1414 - 1417, (2003).

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  1. John Whitfield
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 Pennsylvania State University

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Whitfield, J. Lice genes date first human clothes. Nature (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/news030818-7

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