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Re:How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020) by pitdicker on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:51AM (#39076262)
Paper that discusses similarities between the envelope glycoprotein of retroviruses and syncytin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758191/

This field is called paleovirology, and the paper also discusses in some more detail how fragments of viral DNA can end up in human DNA.

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