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What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes with news about how the hair mites you carry can be used to determine your ancestry. "Right now, deep in your hair follicles and sweat glands, tiny mites are feeding on dead skin cells, mating, and laying eggs. The microscopic arthropods, known as Demodex folliculorum, live on virtually all mammals—especially their faces—and cause no harm under most circumstances. Now, a new study shows that people of different ancestry carry different subgroups of the bugs, and that the mites' distribution throughout the global population may even reflect how our species has migrated and evolved over the course of history."
Thanks to the mites, we might finally find out if we come from extraterrestrial origins.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
I'm using similar tech to sell ISIS fart detectors to the Trump Administration.
Table-ized A.I.
This mite have been true before motels and air travel, but now I'd be shocked to find any two "first world" people on the planet that don't have a face-mite-bacon-distance of 6 or less.
Even if you're a virgin (this IS slashdot), I'm sure you've slept somewhere where someone else slept who slept with someone or in a motel where someone who just flew in from the other side of the globe.
tl;dr: Your face gets around.
Has anyone looked into the differing subtypes of these mites and balding? Maybe a 'mite transplant' is the cure for baldness.
Ewwww. Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me!
That's a low blow but I'll allow it.
Guess what slashdot, I am sick of this website. Shockwave flash advertisements crash my chrome browser all the time. I am switching to reddit. Good luck, I have been watching this site for well over 15 years and watched crumble to ashes as CmdrTaco left and mass media companies ripped the heart and soul out of this community.
I mean, is the control group the people who didn't "get around"? We inherit skin mites, sure. But it's more fun to earn them.
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When we are born we are so clean that even our stomachs do not have bacteria. It is hypothesized that our first dose of this bacteria comes from normal child birth and then we are put in our mothers arms so kissing and cuddling further transfers the bacteria. Is this cuddling and kissing where we get the first face mites too or are we born with them?
In Australia, the face mites try to kill you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I've got ancestors from at least six countries; where do my mites come from?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
It had to be done. But doesn't Uber provide safer off-hour income?
you have been.
"Right now, deep in your hair follicles and sweat glands, tiny mites are feeding on dead skin cells, mating, and laying eggs"
*Plugs fingers in ears*. La la la la la la la la la la la I can't hear you! ;)
They mite be onto something.
> "Right now, deep in your hair follicles and sweat glands, tiny mites are feeding on dead skin cells, mating, and laying eggs.
EW! Fuck you OP! Fuck you!
It's not clear who the actual hosts are, but I'm guessing from the report that they are Americans, of diverse origin. If the people 'of African descent' (for instance) are actually Americans of African descent, with the long contact with the majority European population, can we be sure they are not partly European? The caption for the map says '... distributed around the world'. I know it is a first investigation, but they apparently haven't investigated across the world.
If the mites are getting you down visit aftermite.com
LOL.
starting with a conclusion and adding facts to fit the theory is nothing new. All science started as philosophy, usually with very strong religious undertones. At one time this was the only way as the tools to investigate nature did not exists.
Looking at a human world haplogroup map shows the largest genetic diversity in the Caucasus area, not Africa. http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mcdonald/WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf
What's living on my perineum?
These mites don't have any anuses so when they die they explode spattering their shit over your face, happy christmas with that thought!
...you've just made me try to clean my face with battery acid.
I've got ancient face bugs, passed down from my father and from his father before him!
What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From
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