In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire

NY Times ^ | March 8, 2007 | NICHOLAS WADE

[neverdem]

One of the more embarrassing mysteries of human evolution is that people are host to no fewer than three kinds of louse while most species have just one.

Even bleaker for the human reputation, the pubic louse, which gets its dates and residence-swapping opportunities when its hosts are locked in intimate embrace, does not seem to be a true native of the human body. Its closest relative is the gorilla louse. (Don’t even think about it.)

Louse specialists now seem at last to have solved the question of how people came by their superabundance of fellow travelers. And in doing so they have shed light on the two major turning points in the history of fashion: when people lost their body hair, and when they first made clothing.

Three kinds of louse call Homo sapiens their home, but each occupies a different niche on the human body. The head louse, Pediculus humanus, lives in the forest of fine hairs on the scalp. Its cousin, the body louse, lives not on the skin but in clothes. And the exclusive territory of the pubic louse, Phthirus pubis, is the coarser hairs of the crotch.

Lice are intimately adapted to their hosts and cannot long survive away from the body’s blood and warmth. If their host evolves into two species, the lice will do likewise. So biologists have long been puzzled over the fact that the human head louse is a sister species to the chimpanzee louse, but the pubic louse is closely related to the gorilla louse.

By comparing louse DNA, a team led by David L. Reed of the University of Florida has now reconstructed how this strange situation probably came about. Dr. Reed’s team collected pubic lice from a public health clinic in Salt Lake City. Samples of gorilla lice...

[sully777]

Not only did God create lice but he created all diseases that are connected to lice. In fact, God created all diseases, cancers, cankers, boils, dropsies and such, both seen and unseen (Col. 1:16-17). They are reserved for people that are sinners. Only sinners get sick. Only sinners remain unhealed. And only righteous people get sick but get healed except the really righteous people that get frightfully sick like Hezekiah. And really really righteous people die very young because they speak the truth except all the righteous people in the Bible that died very very old which was all apart of God's glorious plan of salvation.

Who do you think gave the Egyptians lice as a plague? Some little fertility god or goddess caught in an act of coitus with some Egyptian temple prostitute of Isis. We all know that God is the creator and sustainer of all things seen and unseen including lice, virii, plague and tooth decay. It's all about entropy. ENTROPY! Entropy is God's plan of ending this sin sick world that he created in love.

Read your Bible, you backsliding Cretan. It explains everything and brings great fear. What joy we have in godly fear and trembling.

Human crabs, cooties and scabbies didn't come from no ape! How dare you assert your so-called science and medical hocus pocus. We all know that everything bad came from Mother Eve and sex with females, except the bad stuff that comes from having sex with yourself like blindness, madness, coveting, listlessness, tiredness, or sudden death like that guy in the Old Testament that spilled his seed while having sex with his sister-in-law.

So take your satanic intellectualism, your amusing debunkered theorums of evolution (more like evil-pollution) back to your institutions of "higher learning" paid for by the government, certified, and recognized after painful peer reviews and go to h-e-double hockey pucks.

Be blessed and repent :)

[andysandmikesmom]

Now that was quite a sermon, Rev. Sully...

[Doomonyou]

Now that was quite a sermon, Rev. Sully...

No Kidding. I can feel the fire and brimstome way over here.

[Coyoteman]

Now that was quite a sermon, Rev. Sully...

Got to be a spoof!

[andysandmikesmom]

Absolutely...

[neverdem]

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[SunkenCiv]

Admit it. Both of you were itching to post this story.

Gorillas Gave Humans 'The Crabs'
Live Science | 03/07/07 | Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 03/07/2007 12:48:12 PM EST by presidio9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796819/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[Elsie]

Some seven million years ago, this ancient ape species split into gorillas and the ancestors of humans and chimps, with both lineages infected by both species of lice. But Pediculus then fell extinct in its gorilla hosts, according to Dr. Reed’s reconstruction, and Phthirus vanished from the chimp-human ancestor. Next, chimps and humans diverged, and their joint louse diverged with them into Pediculus humanus and Pediculus schaeffi.

The last event in this history of human-louse cohabitation was the transfer of the gorilla’s Phthirus louse to people.

Dr. Stoneking said Dr. Reed’s reconstruction was “pretty reasonable” and said he agreed that acquisition of the gorilla’s louse indicated people had lost their body hair by then. “The transfer doesn’t have to be sexual,” he said, “but presumably it does require reasonably close contact.”

 

I just LOVE the smell of speculation in the morning!!!

[Elsie]

Read your Bible, you backsliding Cretan. It explains everything and brings great fear. What joy we have in godly fear and trembling.

 

AMEN!!!

 

 

 

NIV Genesis 3:17-18

17. To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

      `You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

18. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

 

 

NIV Romans 8:19-22

19. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

20. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

21. that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

 

NIV Revelation 21:27
   Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

 

 

Is YOUR name written there?

 

 

 

[sully777]

Is YOUR name written there?

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AMEN--Preach it Sister Elsie. Preach it loud and clear to the brethren and the heathren alike!!!

For thus sayeth the good book (and it cannot be denied)

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Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons..."

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What joy there be in punishment and what delight there be in the God's terrible retributions of scourgings lest I become an unloved bastard child created in futility of false intellect and satanic scientific reasonings. God is truly love.

[andysandmikesmom]

You have done it again, Rev. Sully...

[sully777]

Send me ten percent of your total earnings and I can preach like this all day.

[sully777]

I don't think it's right that God uses naughty words but who am I to question? I don't want to be a bastard that's not punished. I want to be a son that is!

[andysandmikesmom]

Ah, I see...you are quite the little business man/lady....you get the hang of things quickly...

[sully777]

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[Elsie]

I don't think it's right that God uses naughty words but who am I to question?

 

 

What do you not think about these??

 

 

Ezekiel 23:20-21
 20.  There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 
 21.  So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

[andysandmikesmom]

I dont mind the naughty words...I am still trying to figure out some of the other words in the Bible...like 'unicorn', for example...

[sully777]

Not a big fan of Ezekiel...especially Ezekiel 16-18:

[sully777]

Have you tried a chili cheese "coney" with tater tots? Sonic is having a special for $2.99! Buy it now and you get a bag of fried rock badger cud FREE.

My favorite is savory fire-breathing Leviathan stewed in lentils, like Great Great Great Great Great Grand Cousin Esau made for GrandPoppop Isaac.