(Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Photo by L. Brian Stauffer A new study led by Kevin Johnson of the Illinois Natural History Survey (seated, at left), with, left to right, entomology professor Barry Pittendrigh, animal biology professor Ken Paige and postdoctoral researcher Julie Allen, indicates lice are evolving faster than their human and chimpanzee hosts. « Click photo to enlarge 1/8/2014 | Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor | 217-333-5802; diya@illinois.edu CHAMPAIGN, lll. - A new study compares the relative rate of molecular evolution between humans and chimps with that of their lice. The researchers wanted to know whether evolution marches on at a steady pace in all...
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