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Lice DNA records the moment Europeans colonized the Americas
Science ^ | November 8, 2023 | Michael Rice

Posted on 11/18/2023 1:33:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Alejandra Perotti, an invertebrate biologist at the University of Reading who specializes in lice, says the work is intriguing, but she wants to see the researchers expand and diversify their sample. For instance, only a single louse in the study came from Africa and relatively few came from South America, she notes, limiting the authors’ ability to infer how lice from around world relate to one another. She adds that sequencing the insects’ whole genomes—a project Perotti herself is working on—will offer scientists even more reliable means for pinning down the relatedness between lice groups, as well as matching those to human populations, past and present.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; lice
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Europeans brought Euopean oice. Native Americans gad live that had evolved separately so both types can be distinguished from each other


21 posted on 11/18/2023 10:11:15 PM PST by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: SunkenCiv

Crowlan ferlie ping!
(ancient bug dna)


22 posted on 11/19/2023 3:24:23 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: SunkenCiv

Why, exactly, do we need to know this?


23 posted on 11/19/2023 3:39:22 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - Wiersbe)
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To: Cronos
"Europeans brought Euopean oice.

Native Americans gad live that had evolved separately so both types can be distinguished from each other"


24 posted on 11/19/2023 4:57:22 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Cronos
The Indians colonized the Americas starting from the 1980s.

Not to mention the Vice Presidency of the United States, and two are running for President.

25 posted on 11/19/2023 12:22:05 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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