A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it
answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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I can easily believe that.
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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.
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Totally. But, as you say, that's no surprise.
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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]
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Aahaha. I pushed back really hard on that paper - I reviewed it and was unenthused to say the least.
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I was shocked when they accepted it