Pubic hair provides evolutionary home for gorilla lice
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 10:49
in Biology & Nature
There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus. A new article in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology suggests one explanation for the separation of the two species.