Lice from Mummies Track Down Human Migration

They may be nasty, but these parasites are intimately bound to humans and may tell a lot of our past. They can only live on humans and die rapidly out of their human hosts, unable to parasitize any other animal. Head lice collected from 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies clearly point that they ... [ read more >> ]

Peruvian mummy from the same period with the louse sampled ones

Head louse

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Head louse