No species is "more evolved
> " than any other. That's where Ed Rybicki makes his mistake too.
For about the last time......
B-) NOTICE? SEE??? KNOW WHAT IT MEANS?? ACADEMIC SMILEY!!!!
And RNA viruses ARE more evolved than anything else - they CAN
evolve a HELL of a lot faster than anything else (10exp5 or so),
thanks to more inaccurate RNA-dep RNA pol. Of course, that doesn't
mean they DO, all the time; just that they CAN, when selected.
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