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<td>Re: [Nostratic-L] [Fwd: Creative Search For Naked Truth]</td>
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<td>Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:07:40 -0700 (PDT)</td>
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<td>Andy Howey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:andyandmae_howey@sbcglobal.net"><andyandmae_howey@sbcglobal.net></a></td>
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<b><i>"H.M. Hubey" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:HubeyH@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU"><HubeyH@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU></a></i></b> wrote:
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<td>Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:02:06 +0100</td>
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<pre>Creative Search For Naked Truth
Study Uses Lice DNA to Find When Clothing First Appeared
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 19, 2003; Page A01
In a creative use of insect genetics to solve an enduring mystery of human
evolution, scientists studying the DNA of lice have concluded that early humans
may have started wearing clothes just a few tens of thousands of years ago,
more recently than many had presumed.
The new work -- based on subtle genetic differences between human body lice,
which depend on clothing for their survival, and human head lice, which do
not -- suggests that early humans may have lived in Europe for tens of
thousands of years after leaving Africa before availing themselves of clothes.
Among the work's controversial implications: Early humans such as
Neanderthals -- who lived from about 150,000 years ago until 30,000 years ago
and who are typically depicted as hairless and clad in furs -- may in fact have
been quite furry until surprisingly late in their evolution.
"If you look at how Neanderthals are routinely depicted in books and museums,
people have just thought they must have had clothing to protect against cold
weather," said study leader Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "But if you ask, 'What's the
evidence?' it's just not compelling that they had clothes. Perhaps they had
more body hair than we thought."
The transition from hairy to hairless, and the related advance from naked to
clothed, were seminal events in human biological and cultural evolution. But
scientists know little about the timing of either.
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