I heard that body lice is a subspecies with head lice, and they’re trying use mitochondrial or Y-Chromosome or some kind of DNA dating molecular clock thing to make a guess at how long humans have been running around with clothing.
So my question is if body lice are only limited to human clothing, or if they can live in other stuff also? I just want to know how good these studies that I’m hearing about are?
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Of course not.
Body lice inhabit dolphins’ clothing, dogs’ clothing… I asked a fish once and he said it’s really itchy when he gets lice in his t-shirt.
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All jokes aside though,
lice can live in carpets, sofas, ma tresses…
pretty much anything made of fabric.
so, with that in mind,
i guess it makes sense that finding out how old body lice are
may not tell you how old clothes are.
It would just tell you how long humans have used fabric.
But, also, you should keep in mind that
in order for lice to transfer from one thing to another,
it’s got to have close contact for a good amount of time,
and clothes are a very good example of that.
I’m sorry, i guess i don’t really have an answer,
but I bet the scientists have thought of that.
They know what they’re doing.