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Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
8 hours ago

Mosquitoes may have evolved a taste for human blood thanks to Homo erectus

Some mosquitoes developed a preference for human blood 1.6 to 2.9 million years ago, potentially coinciding with Homo erectus presence in Southeast Asia.
Science
fromNature
4 months ago

Current mosquitoes evolved more recently than previously thought

Most living mosquito genera arose about 73 million years ago, with modern mosquito ancestors and Plasmodium predecessors emerging around the same time.
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