This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Christian Eggers about whether or not viruses should qualify as being “alive”, and the importance of viruses in evolution.
Links
Zach’s Trail of the Clone Kickstarter
Some scientific papers on the topic of whether or not viruses are living:
The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses in the living world
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