"We wanted to find another method for pinpointing when humans might have first started wearing clothing," Reed said. "Because they are so well adapted to clothing, we know that body lice or clothing lice almost certainly didn't exist until clothing came about in humans."
And you thought your tax money was going to waste! Without government grants no one would have funded such a profound, though useless, study. And look at the brilliant conclusion - there were no clothing lice until there was clothing! I hope they don't stop the study there. We may discover there were no bed bugs until there were beds but that is pure speculation.
I wonder what the AGW people think about this?
LOL...thanks for that chuckle...an obvious error in logic, but these are scientists we're talking about.
We may find that there were no scientists until there were grants, and the entymologists can study "grant grubbers"...