So it seems that while the University of Florida's basketball team is hard at work trying to repeat as national champions, scientists at that same institution are toiling with equal zeal to (I almost can't believe it myself) reconstruct the evolutionary history of lice. I know I've been staying awake at night puzzling over it.
To make the story even better, apparently pubic lice might have passed to humans from gorillas in some sort of prehistoric interspecies hanky-panky. Which gives rise to a whole host of other thoughts that can keep me up at night now that that whole evolutionary history of lice mystery is close to being solved.
