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We are pleased to report that HarperCollins will be taking Virolution into America.
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There has been a strong scientific and medical reaction to Virolution, with the concepts Frank Ryan introduced in the book being considered for their applications to biology and to medicine.
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Over the last year or so, a number of new studies from childhood, through normal adulthood and into old age, have confirmed the core message of The Brain Food Diet. Those who want to know more should go to Cognitive Decline page or contact Dr Ryan through the contact page.
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.
Click on the cover above, to find out more.
Explore any page on this site through the appropriate links in the right column, including other titles, or visit the books page.
"I, Virus", a feature article by Frank Ryan for lay readers has been published in New Scientist. Five papers extrapolating the evolutionary biology to medicine have been published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. See the scientist's page
If you have read the book, or visited the Virolution pages, you can post a query or comment to Dr Ryan -- see the visitors' interactive page
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