Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNA

N Y Times ^ | Carl Zimmer

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Reprise:

The Scars of Evolution:
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan

"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"

from the FRchives:

• Human Ancestors Went Out Of Africa And Then Came Back... [1998] [2007]
• Human Ancestor Preserved in Stone [2007]
• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found [2007]
• Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says [2006]
• Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa? [2005]
• Evidence for the Orangutan Relationship [2005]
• Infectious Evolution: Ancient Virus Hit Apes, Not Our Ancestors, In The Genes [2005]

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If you’ve never been in a conversation with a geneticist, they must have a test which recruits narcissists.

“God complex” is too kind a descriptor, yet that is the future of modern medicine.

Glad I won’t be around for it.