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Attention, Scientists: Some Things We Didn't Want to Know

Mar 08, 2007

Here's a great way to start the day: wondering whether our ancestors were exchanging lice with their gorilla brethren in a more-than-friends kind of way. Today's New York Times brings us an article about new DNA analysis of different kinds of lice, and the inevitable conclusions about factors such as when humans lost their body hair and began wearing clothes.

The abstract of the paper from David Reed at the University of Florida, on which the NYT article is based, can be found here.

 

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