Virus Genes in Our DNA Offer Further Proof of Evolution

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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