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The Human Genome: More Viruses than Genes?

jmulvey writes "A new University of Georgia study shows that most of the human genome contains a huge historical record of retroviruses. The study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that viruses were instrumental in the evolution of chimps into humans."

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  1. Re:transposons by PD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost 150 years later, those drawings are still in most textbooks, cited as evidence for evolution.

    Let's get rid of *your* lie. The idea that embryonic development is evidence for evolution was abandoned by science a very long time ago. I can only believe that you either don't know any better, or you are deliberately making things up.

    Evolution is a fact, that's well established. All debate about evolution is about how it happened.