Evolution’s Buggy Ride: Lice leap boldly into human-origins fray

Lice aren’t nice, at least not when they’re attached to people. In a bid for scientific respectability, however, these pestering parasites may have yielded provocative new genetic insights into human evolution.

INSECT ASIDE. A genetic analysis of human head lice, such as the louse shown here, may offer clues to human evolution. V.