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Alexis_J_M t1_j9wrpqx wrote

Reply to comment by Evernight2021 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973

They don't need old lice, they look at existing lice and build out probable family trees, based on things like mutation rates in various parts of louse DNA.

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