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A comment on The Lurker: How a Virus Hid in Our Genome for Six Million Years (2013). Parent comment

Re:The Lurker: How a Virus Hid in Our Genome for Six Million... by noonespecial on Saturday December 13, 2014 @06:54AM (#8744988)
I think it's a mistake to consider a "clean" version of the human genome that "got polluted" along the way. We co-evolved with these other factors all together. Tinker at your own risk.
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Re:The Lurker: How a Virus Hid in Our Genome for Six Million... by JoeAltmaier on Saturday December 13, 2014 @09:45AM (#8745259)
Yeah but chimps and denisovans lived fine without as many copies. Certainly I don't advise knocking about indiscriminately. But we have 100 copies - wouldn't 50 do? 20? 1?
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