• Swedneck
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    7 months ago

    honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if there were flies that specifically travelled with humans when we were nomadic

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      7 months ago

      There are two main lineages of head lice that split up right around when humans left Africa. Theory I heard is that one probably came from Neanderthals and went back to humans as the two groups…met up.