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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've often wondered that about house flies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

How about carpet beetles and clothes moths?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They evolved from cave flies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

honestly i wouldn't be surprised if there were flies that specifically travelled with humans when we were nomadic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There are two main lineages of head lice that split up right around when humans left Africa. Theory I heard is that one probably came from Neanderthals and went back to humans as the two groups...met up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Also migratory birds when humans invented electric wires.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the pellets. Why are they so expensive now?