I will never, never
Entertain conceit
To think my poems a feat
To be renowned.
God forbid such a naive presumption
To assume it worth consumption
By others than I.
And yet, perhaps,
If there be some who need
To bleed despair
Through redundance
In my words -
If there be those who
Dare to see but cannot say
The essay of their melancholy hearts
In my attempts to find my way
To map and mark
The track of exploration
To them may be bequeathed
Whether palliative or panacea
A diminutive relief.
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?