Summary of my talk in Curtin University
on Sept. 5, 2007. This summary will be published in "Warta Geologi", bi-monthly newsletter of the Geological Society of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in the September/October issue.
There is a wealth of data about earthquakes and earthquake research available on the internet. Anybody can monitor earthquakes in almost real times, and data bases such as the USGS offer a fantastic compilation of historical data - one can draw one's own conclusions and these are, I'm afraid to say so, not always in tune with established thoughts.
Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus
Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future?
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