Paleovirology and Evolution with Dr. Welkin Johnson
The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott
Indogenous Retroviruses in Evolution
Retoviruss is a sequence that arose by infection and insertion of virodiona into a germline cell, but from there wound up in the organisms jean pool an. Even though it's thought that this is probably a rare event during any given infection, over the course of vast evolutionary time, it's happened millions of times. So you can retrace our history, the viruses that have arisen and spread, going back more than 50 million years. They're still recognizable out past 50 million to 100 million years.
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