The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution 133
mhackarbie writes "The current edition of the New Yorker magazine has up a story about endogenous retroviruses in the genomes of humans and other species. Although researchers have known about such non-functional retroviral 'fossils' in the human genome for some time, the large amount of recent genomic data underscores just how pervasive they are, in a compelling tale that involves humans, their primate cousins, and a variety of viral invaders. Some researchers are even bringing back non-functional viral remnants from the dead by fixing their broken genes."
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Is this a bad time to point out that you may just have missed a comma? :P
-:sigma.SB
Re:Cambrian explosion? (Score:2, Funny)
Not if you've seen some of my dates [drum hit].