Adam and Eve may have worn fig leaves while still in the Garden of Eden but a study of the most intimate of pests -- body lice -- suggests that humans started wearing clothes 70,000 years ago. The ...

The evolution of body lice shows that humans began wearing clothes between 50,000 to 200,000 years ago. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe.

By looking at when head lice separated from clothing lice, Reed and his team estimated that anatomically modern humans started regularly wearing simple clothes around 170,000 years ago, during the ...

Scientists have used the DNA of lice to determine when humans first began to wear clothing. People put on clothes 170,000 years ago, concludes a new study that suggests our ancestors got dressed ...

Scientists manged to sequence the whole genome, an organism's complete set of DNA, from the four samples. Ranging from 2,300 ...

Genetic studies of lice indicate that clothing lice diverged from their human head louse ancestors at least 83,000 years ago and possibly as early as 170,000 years ago, ...

In 2013, John Helle, a third-generation sheep rancher in Western Montana, co-founded a wool clothing company called Duckworth Co. The brand sells shirts, hoodies, socks, hats and other clothing ...