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Frank Ryan will be addressing advances in the concept of "viral symbiosis" in evolution and its role in the evolution and functioning of the "holobiontic human genome" at two plenary session lectures in 2012, the first in Krakow at the World Congress of the International Symbiosis Society in late July and the second at the PHD group meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology - the EMPSEB - in Helsinki in September.
Metamorphosis
Aimed squarely at the general reader rather than the scientific cognoscenti... one of the best scientific books of recent years. The Internationalist.
Click here for details of this fascinating new Frank Ryan title published in America by Chelsea Green and, with a slightly different title, in the UK and Commonwealth territories by Oneworld. This book examines the great natural mystery, metamorphosis, which intrigued Aristotle, as well as the mystery of the "Cambrian explosion", which gave rise to the animal kingdom. "This book is a must for entomologists, marine biologists and the downright curious" - New Scientist.
Virolution
A pioneering new book by Frank Ryan that expands our understanding of human evolution and has implications for medicine, including important illnesses such as MS and cancer.
In 2001, when two separate organisations laid bare, for the first time, the DNA structure of our human genome, it revealed a deeply paradoxical truth. Where we expected some 100,000 genes coding for the same number of proteins, just 1.5% of the DNA coded for just 20,000 proteins. Meanwhile, almost half our DNA is viral - with a genetic structure very similar to the genome of HIV-1, the viral cause of AIDS. What does this mean in terms of the story of our human evolution? In Virolution, Frank Ryan explains the remarkable story of how this came about.. and what it means.
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