Very cool article! I like how they're using lice to make conclusions about humans and their behaviour--very ingenious.
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although skulls from millions of years ago testify to the increase in brain size as one species of human ancestor evolved into the next, and although the architecture of spine and hips shows when our ancestors first stood erect, the fossil record is silent on when they fully lost their body hair and replaced it with clothing. Which makes it fortunate that Mark Stoneking thought of lice.
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It's like
CSI: Pleistocene!