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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.209 [SLACK_000423] · slack_pm:msg:02170

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Date
2020-10-02 15:19
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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Clearly, once this thing hit humans, there was (is :disappointed: ) very very strong selection for maintaining that site.

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  1. 2020-10-02 15:13 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Doesn't surprise me about Wade - really disappointing. But reading his questions I was like "well, I'd have to start with explaining evolution to him first - I ain't got time for that shit".
  2. 2020-10-02 15:15 Edward C. Holmes open
    He probably has a hotline to Alina. I'm for the cryptic circulation in humans theory as well, not least because ofgetting the first cluster of cases most be tiny.
  3. 2020-10-02 15:18 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, I think that's a really intriguing possibility. Could have been related to animal farming, which would (strongly?) select for the FCS popping up in the first place.
  4. 2020-10-02 15:19 Edward C. Holmes open
    I can easily believe that.
  5. 2020-10-02 15:19 Kristian G. Andersen
    Clearly, once this thing hit humans, there was (is :disappointed: ) very very strong selection for maintaining that site.
  6. 2020-10-02 15:21 Edward C. Holmes open
    Totally. But, as you say, that's no surprise.
  7. 2020-10-02 15:31 Edward C. Holmes open
    In other news, I was *confidentially* (so keep to yourself) asked to comment on this. I've not read it, but looking that the tree these viruses are really not that close to Rubella. Bit surprised they got this into Nature. [shared file(s): Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals.pdf]
  8. 2020-10-02 15:43 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Aahaha. I pushed back really hard on that paper - I reviewed it and was unenthused to say the least.
  9. 2020-10-02 15:43 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I was shocked when they accepted it

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