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Now I’m more convinced Evolution might be driven by viruses
by whoevercares 7y ago
Now I’m more convinced Evolution might be driven by viruses
- ceejayoz 7y agoThey're certainly a source of selection pressure. One of many.
- vikramkr 7y agoEvolution is driven by a lot of things. It's driven by viruses by definition since of a virus integrates and makes a mutation to the germline, then that's a change which is evolution. And obviously bdosease is a major selective pressure driving evolution. And so so starvation, radiation, chemical mutation, errors in copying, heat, cold, literally everything that impacts survival and procreation drives evolution.