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 ...

Even as long as 170,000 years ago, our ancestors wore lousy clothing. A new analysis of genes from human body lice indicates that modern humans began wearing clothing — and attracting lice ...

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.

In a seminal study, Reed and his team used modern lice DNA to trace the origin of clothing use back to around 170,000 years ago. According to Reed, this was a game-changing moment for our ancestors.

The lice also break wool strands, which is a result of nutrient deficiency. Jack Lloyd, another researcher on the project, said the African blue louse has been found on sheep in Wyoming, Idaho and ...

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 ...

Genetic analysis of human head and clothing lice indicates an early origin of clothing use in archaic hominins. American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting. April 14–17.

Putting on clothing to protect our woefully hair-deficient bodies is one of the key moments in the history of becoming human. Just when our species took this step, however, is open to a fair ...

An evolutionary comparison of human head and body lice has shed light on the history of clothing. At what stage in human development did clothes become de rigueur A team based in Germany has worked ...