Mosquitoes began biting humans more than a million years ago

A DNA analysis traced the history of mosquitoes’ initial human bites

A colour enhanced scanning electron micrograph of an Anopheles mosquito

A close look at mosquito DNA reveals when the insects switched from biting nonhuman primates to our early human ancestors.

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