This strikes me as a very hyped article. "It’s like Einstein’s theory of relativity, but for viruses" - seriously?! While the proposed explanation for differing

This strikes me as a very hyped article. "It’s like Einstein’s theory of relativity, but for viruses" - seriously?! While the proposed explanation for differing rates of evolution is doubtlessly interesting from a scientific perspective, it is definitely not as big as this article makes it out to be. Also the dig at the molecular clock is pointless - we have always known that there are many unknowns involved when using a "standard mutation rate" to calculate the time since the divergence between two species. That is nothing new, and the estimates we have are consequently constantly being revised. The time-dependent rate is a good addition to our methodologies, but it isn't the revolution advertised here. (Oh and by the way, the original paper is from 2005.)