Virolution. The most important book about evolution after the “selfish gene” Richard Dokinza: Frank Ryan

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 is a logical, justified scientific and reinforced by experimental data, Frank Ryan’s story.
Frank Ryan is an English geneticist, a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Linneum Society in London, a popularizer of science.

Author
Ryan Frank
Editor
Nikitin V.
Translator
Mogilevtsev Dmitry
Publisher
Lomonosov, 2022
Series
Beam