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Origin of Clothing Lice Indicates Early Clothing Use by Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa

Clothing use is an important modern behavior that contributed to the successful expansion of humans into higher latitudes and cold climates. Previous research suggests that clothing use originated anywhere between 40,000 and 3 Ma, though there is little direct archaeological, fossil, or genetic evid...

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Autores principales: Toups, Melissa A., Kitchen, Andrew, Light, Jessica E., Reed, David L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20823373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq234
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description Clothing use is an important modern behavior that contributed to the successful expansion of humans into higher latitudes and cold climates. Previous research suggests that clothing use originated anywhere between 40,000 and 3 Ma, though there is little direct archaeological, fossil, or genetic evidence to support more specific estimates. Since clothing lice evolved from head louse ancestors once humans adopted clothing, dating the emergence of clothing lice may provide more specific estimates of the origin of clothing use. Here, we use a Bayesian coalescent modeling approach to estimate that clothing lice diverged from head louse ancestors at least by 83,000 and possibly as early as 170,000 years ago. Our analysis suggests that the use of clothing likely originated with anatomically modern humans in Africa and reinforces a broad trend of modern human developments in Africa during the Middle to Late Pleistocene.
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spelling pubmed-30022362010-12-15 Origin of Clothing Lice Indicates Early Clothing Use by Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa Toups, Melissa A. Kitchen, Andrew Light, Jessica E. Reed, David L. Mol Biol Evol Letters Clothing use is an important modern behavior that contributed to the successful expansion of humans into higher latitudes and cold climates. Previous research suggests that clothing use originated anywhere between 40,000 and 3 Ma, though there is little direct archaeological, fossil, or genetic evidence to support more specific estimates. Since clothing lice evolved from head louse ancestors once humans adopted clothing, dating the emergence of clothing lice may provide more specific estimates of the origin of clothing use. Here, we use a Bayesian coalescent modeling approach to estimate that clothing lice diverged from head louse ancestors at least by 83,000 and possibly as early as 170,000 years ago. Our analysis suggests that the use of clothing likely originated with anatomically modern humans in Africa and reinforces a broad trend of modern human developments in Africa during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Oxford University Press 2011-01 2010-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3002236/ /pubmed/20823373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq234 Text en © The Author(s) 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Origin of Clothing Lice Indicates Early Clothing Use by Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20823373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq234
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