Virolution. Symbiosis of man and virus as a reality of evolution. Ryan F.

The main idea of ​​this book is shocking. All living things on the planet, including people, live in symbiosis with viruses, evolve with them and thanks to them... survive. The first reaction of the reader: this cannot be! But it turns out that it can... the viruses, their derivatives and closely related structures make up at least forty -three percent of the human genome, which forces us to conclude: natural selection of a person and his ancestors took place in partnership with hundreds of viruses. But how did the viruses integrate into the human genome? How does natural selection work at the level of the carrier virus? How is the driving forces of evolution interact - mutations, symbiogenesis, hybridization and epigenetics? About this - the logical, justified by scientific and reinforced by experimental data, the story of Frank Ryan.

Frank Ryan - English geneticist, member of the Royal Society of Medicine and Linneum Society in London, a popularizer of science.