Otago Daily Times
Old enemies head to head: a mosquito and the skull of Homo erectus from Yunxian. PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES, GARY TODD/FLICKR Last month, a new genetic study of mosquitoes in Southeast Asia led by Catherine Walton, of the University of Manchester, came to a remarkable conclusion. It found that about 1.8million years ago, these nasty insects developed a taste for human blood. Until then, they had feasted on the blood of monkeys that lived in the rainforests of the Far East.
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