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Evolutionary Advantage.

In search of ragu.

John Ellis
Jan 19, 2021
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1. For most of 2020, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 jumped from human to human, accumulating mutations at a steady rate of two per month—not especially impressive for a virus. These mutations have largely had little effect. But recently, three distinct versions of the virus seem to have independently converged on some of the same mutations, despit…

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