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Evolution Factsberg
(thelemmy.club)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules
not just one. 5-8% of the human genome comes from viruses
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus just in case anyone wants a search term
And provides fertile ground for evolution by providing space for gene duplication and divergence. Likely also for miRNA control systems.
That explains a lot.