A vicious virus infected ancestral chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa between 4 million and 3 million years ago. Not only did it kill a great many of these primates, but it also infiltrated the surviving animals’ genomes, altering the course of evolution. That’s the picture emerging from a new analysis of modern-primate DNA.
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