This book, Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio, gets mentioned in my lab meetings not just because it’s a cool dystopian sci-fi story but, so it has been paraphrased to me, “a retroviral insertion has lead to the creation of a new humanoid species!”
Given that the endogenization of retroviruses and the evolutionary consequences of these events is one of the research interests of my lab, this is a “theme book” for my lab if any….
On this day..
- Longest Day Road Race 2016 - 2016
- DineOut Reviews: A slice of Saskatoon - 2012
- Our Canucks "Bet" - 2011
- Three Years - 2009