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Genetic Analysis of Lice Supports Direct Contact between Modern and Archaic Humans

30 Sept 2004

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Parasites can be used as unique markers to investigate host evolutionary history, independent of host data. Here we show that modern human head lice, Pediculus humanus, are composed of two ancient lineages, whose origin predates modern Homo sapiens by an order of magnitude (ca. 1.18 million years). One of the two louse lineages has a worldwide distribution and appears to have undergone a population bottleneck ca....

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PMID: 15502871
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020340

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