"Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Carl Zimmer

#Years Quotes #Mammals Quotes #Viruses Quotes

“...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.”
“I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.”
“I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.”
“Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.”
“If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”
“Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.”
“The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.”
“You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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