@goatsarah @stavvers I really don't know, I thought they were different because headlice don't look like crabs lol
@Ellen @goatsarah they are complete different genuses, apparently!
@stavvers @Ellen @goatsarah Human pubic lice are more closely related to gorilla body lice than they are to human head lice. There’s a whole world of questions there that I know with 99.99% certainty have completely innocent answers, but still
@Polypompholyx @Ellen @goatsarah it is important to note that the head lice are more closely related to chimp ones, which also raises Questions
@Polypompholyx @stavvers @Ellen @goatsarah I read an interesting thing forever ago about how we could work out when humans started wearing clothes based on the genetic differences between clothes lice and the other 2 human lice species.
Humans have had crabs and nits for long enough that there are at least *fewer* capital-Q Questions about their closeness to parasites of other primates, mind