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Re:Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider by whyenot on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:37AM (#12722715)
> Viruses are the enigma of evolution. Are they just chemicals, or living?

Biology is full of edge cases like this. For a few more examples, google "species problem". Human beings often like to classify things into discrete groups, but that doesn't necessarily map onto the natural world all that well.

Re:Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider by laumars on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:37AM (#12723891)
indeed. This reminds me of the arguments about whether fungus is a plant or an animal.