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To: bentway who wrote (573803)6/26/2010 2:36:27 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1576022
 
"it may have been some virus that gave us the tweak we needed to develop opposable thumbs, or intelligence and self-awareness."

It wouldn't surprise me at all if viruses were one of the many tools that evolution uses.

Greg Bear explores this idea in "Darwin's Radio".