[extropy-chat] Viruses as the Driver of Evolution

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:57 PM 12/8/2004 -0800, Kurt Schoedel wrote:

>I first learned of HERVs when I read Laurie Garrett's book, "The Coming
>Plague", about 10 years ago. I saw sitting in a bar in the Roppongi
>when the thought occurred to me that infectious agents have got to be
>the driving force behind evolution.
>
>There is more. There is another researcher who has written a book about
>evolution. Her name is Lynn Caporale and her book is "Darwin in the
>Genome", in which she constructs a theory of evolution that is also
>based on infectious agents.

Yes, and Greg Bear's novels DARWIN'S RADIO (1999) and sequel DARWIN'S 
CHILDREN, and, possibly, my story `A Tooth for Every Child' (written in 
1981, published 1985).

Damien Broderick