This is certainly not new news to the scientific community, but Carl Zimmer writes an interesting article about it anyways.more
Carl so eloquently states in his recent writing, The Sixty-Million-Year Virus, how our genome contains 8% junk viral DNA that is important to our evolution, as well as shows a positive link between our common ancestry with other primates. Chalk it up to one more piece of confirming evidence that speaks to a world view that many ignorant people fight so hard to keep out of our classrooms.
This article seems well suited for the non-science educated public, a talent that Carl seems to amaze me at all too often.
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05/19/06
Yes, he amazes me too..
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