Comments on: My “Viral Time” talk–now on FORA.tv http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/18/my-viral-time-talk-now-on-fora-tv/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Emil V. Nilsson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/18/my-viral-time-talk-now-on-fora-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-57922 Emil V. Nilsson Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:44:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4663#comment-57922 Thank you for that talk! I just watched it and I am now amazed by viruses. I keep thinking about when I was studying biology as an undergrad and how virus wasn't even considered life back then. Giant viruses fascinates me, particularly by being so of the chart in the three of life. Can you recommend some review about these viruses, preferably written with an angle that emphasises their evolutionary origins? That would be awesome. Cheers, Emil. [CZ: A good place to start would be <a href="http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2011/4/giant-viruses/1" rel="nofollow">this brand new review</a> in American Scientist.] Thank you for that talk! I just watched it and I am now amazed by viruses. I keep thinking about when I was studying biology as an undergrad and how virus wasn’t even considered life back then.

Giant viruses fascinates me, particularly by being so of the chart in the three of life. Can you recommend some review about these viruses, preferably written with an angle that emphasises their evolutionary origins? That would be awesome.

Cheers, Emil.

[CZ: A good place to start would be this brand new review in American Scientist.]

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