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Disease evolution: our long history of fighting viruses

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imageA virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat.Tom Thai/Flickr, CC BY

This is the first of a three-part package on how diseases evolve when we change the way we live. Part two, tomorrow, will explore the origins of anorexia and how mental illness is shaped by time and culture. Part three, on...

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