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Can Viruses Cheat? Cooperate? That’s What Sociovirologists Claim

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in?
Perhaps sociovirology is an instance of the slow creep of panpsychism in the sciences. But it is early days yet to be sure. Read More ›