Sex with Gorillas - Idea Affects Scientific Analysis

It has been scientifically proven that pubic lice were transferred between early humans and gorillas about 3.3 million years ago.

Pubic.

Pubic.

However, those discovering scientists:

"claim it is far more likely that early humans caught the lice from sleeping in abandoned gorilla nests than from having sex with gorillas."

...According to Reed, this suggests that early humans and gorillas made close contact, though he “seriously doubts” that pubic lice transferred between the two during sex.

...Pubic lice can live for up to 24 hours once removed from their host. But he acknowledges: “I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to know for certain which hypothesis is correct.”

So, given that gorilla sex is abhorrent to the scientists, despite that 24hr survival time, they have decided that humans snuck into "abandoned gorilla nests" less than 24 hours after they were abandoned.

This is right up there with "every statue is a god or goddess".