Archive for December, 2007

Darwin’s Surprise - The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

The current edition of the New Yorker magazine has up a story about endogenous retroviruses in the genomes of humans and other species. Although researchers have known about such non-functional retroviral 'fossils' in the human genome for some time, the large amount of recent genomic data underscores just how pervasive ...