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Published online 20 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030818-7
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Lice genes date first human clothes
Garments appeared 70,000 years ago, suggests parasite DNA.
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.
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