A new study following the evolution of lice discovered something interesting - modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, and that was a key factor in successfully migrating out of Africa.
Principal investigator David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, studies lice in modern humans to better understand human evolution and migration patterns. His latest five-year study used DNA sequencing to calculate when clothing lice first began to diverge genetically from human head lice.
Ibn al-Haytham can be called the father of modern optics. His 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published 1000 years ago, is considered by some to be in the same league as Newton's Principia regarding its influence in physics, yet very little is known about the writer.
It may seem intuitive that the Moon might have a core, just as Earth does, but science doesn't work on intuition. Absent drilling or inference, it has been hypothesized that Luna has a core but now researchers are closer to an answer, thanks to old Apollo missions.
A group of researchers analyzed older seismic data using new techniques and now say the Moon possesses an iron-rich core with a solid inner ball nearly 150 miles in radius, and a 55-mile thick outer fluid shell.
If you're not from a part of the U.S.A. that read the "Li'l Abner" comics by Al Capp, you may not know Sadie Hawkins Day - but butterflies do. Sadie Hawkins, as comic strip aficionados know, was 'the homeliest gal in the hills' so her prominent father, worried about her never finding a husband, invented a day where women could chase men and marriage was the result. The strip debuted in November of 1937 and was wildly popular, resulting in Sadie Hawkins dances all over the country for decades since.
The cool days of November aren't lucky for just bachelor men. Butterflies have sex role reversal when the days get cooler as well.
