TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain
This Week in Evolution
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The Evolution of Viruses
A paper in eLife makes a case that viruses are gaining genes from their hosts, then they move between different hosts. Do you think mosquitoes carrying in viruses can shift species evolution for better or worse? Can the virus gene then go into a different host? And there's a little bit of evidence out there that does happen.
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