What are viruses really like? Why could the first living organism have been a virus? Why are we 2% Neanderthal and 8% virus? How do you tell the difference between living and non-living things? And why is humanity a disease?
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0:00 - Deadliest epidemics.
2:00 - Virology
3:12 - Scientific Context
6:23 - Magic Crystals
8:15 - Virus Architecture
10:31 - The frightening nature of viruses
12:30 - What is a virus?
15:17 - How did viruses come to be?
17:33 - The Vagrancy Hypothesis.
19:39 - The Degradation Hypothesis.
22:07 - The Shadow Hypothesis.
24:54 - Are viruses living or non-living?
27:20 - Parasitic survival strategy.
31:29 - The Evolutionary Ark.
32:34 - Zoonosis.
33:24 - Animal-plant.
37:07 - The fatal role of the virus.
41:21 - The duality of the virus
44:29 - Our viral genome
47:57 - Humanity is a disease.
54:38 - But we have a choice.
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