Sentences with phrase «human body lice»

Re # 2: [If human body lice studies are confirmed as indicating that not a single human wore clothing, not even animal skins, as recently as 169,000 years ago, then the average temperature globally must have been considerably warmer...]

If human body lice studies are confirmed as indicating that not a single human wore clothing, not even animal skins, as recently as 169,000 years ago, then the average temperature globally must have been considerably warmer than it is now in African latitudes where most of us may have been located in those days.

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Body lice, and hence clothing, may have appeared around the time when modern humans started to explore the world beyond Africa, which many researchers now place at 50,000 to 100,000 years ago.

Body lice, Pediculus humanus corporis, probably took up residence in garments only after humans began wearing them around 72,000 years ago, while their relatives Phthirus pubis, crab lice, live among human pubic hairs and rarely anywhere else.

Early humans probably shed their full body - hair suits because they were often infested with disease - carrying parasites like lice, fleas and mites, according to scientists at England's John Radcliffe Hospital and University of Reading.