[extropy-chat] Viruses as the Driver of Evolution

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:05:57PM -0600, damien wrote:

> >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).

Doesn't this assume the inserted segments are going to make other sense
entirely, occasionally? 

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