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Posted on 03/13/2026 2:35:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a statement released by the Nature Publishing Group, Anopheles leucosphyrus mosquitoes may have evolved to feed on humans in Southeast Asia. Upasana Shyamsunder Singh of Vanderbilt University, Catherine Walton of the University of Manchester, and their colleagues sequenced DNA from 38 modern-day mosquitoes from 11 species in the leucosphyrus group. Then the researchers employed computer models and estimates of DNA mutation rates to reconstruct the evolution of these mosquitoes. The study suggests that the bugs switched from feeding on non-human primates to early humans in the region of Sundaland, an area including the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, between 2.9 and 1.6 million years ago. This timeline supports the limited fossil evidence indicating that Homo erectus lived in Southeast Asia some 1.8 million years ago, the researchers concluded. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Scientific Reports. To read about the arrival of Homo sapiens to the region, go to "Settling Southeast Asia."
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Map representing the distributions of specimens collected in Southeast Asia. Shading indicates the present-day distributions of forest types in mainland and insular Southeast Asia, adapted from Morley55. Black dots on the map represent collection sites. The number adjacent to the dots represents individual species collected from that site according to the species list on the left. The color of the numbers and species names indicate distinct blood-feeding behaviors; blue–NHP feeding, red–mixed-feeding, purple–human feeding, derived from published literature (listed in Supplementary Table S1). The brown outer line represents the outline of the exposed Sunda Shelf at the Last Glacial Maxima (currently 120 m below sea level)57. The two short brown lines represent biogeographic barriers: the Kangar-Pattani line in the south and the Isthmus of Kra in the north. The Isthmus of Kra and the W-H (Wallace-Huxley) line (grey line) in the east mark the boundaries of Sundaland.Scientific Reports (Sci Rep) ISSN 2045-2322 (online)
We’ve more than enough Erect Homos as it is… don’t need more migratin’ here….
(Sorry… had to… couldn’t resist 😁)
Sometimes I wonder why Mosquitoes were created. Maybe for population control?
“Sometimes I wonder why Mosquitoes were created. Maybe for population control?”
To give vampire bats something to eat?
“Homo Erectus”
That just sounds WRONG!
Life imitates at (at least the television version of it).
Paging Gil Grisson, paging Dr Gil Grissom, ... you’re wanted in forensic entomology ....
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