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...misquote Samuel Johnson, Hillary Clinton attempting to make jokes on television is like a dog trying to walk on its hind legs: really awkward for everyone involved. Since everything Hillary does feels like the result of at least eight focus groups, there must be some reason she has decided to subject the American people to this. Perhaps Huckabee’s exodus from the ring has left the Late-Night Comedy Demographic rudderless and open to suggestion. Yet watching Hillary’s efforts to wangle a laugh out of the American people serves as a reminder of the closest...
While looking at the natural variation in the TRIM5 gene in Asian macaques, which are considered Old World monkeys, Harvard microbiologist Ruchi M. Newman accidentally discovered a second example of the TRIM5-CypA fusion, according to Medical School professor Welkin P. Johnson, the study’s senior author...
Newman and Johnson said that Old World and New World monkeys split from each other a long time ago, and that this was a rare instance of evolution producing virtually exactly the same protein twice. The gene must have been under strong selective pressure, according to the authors...
...three species of macaques—the Asian Old World monkeys—but not in sooty mangabeys, which are African Old World monkeys that are the closest relative to the macaques. Based on these facts, researchers estimated that the gene appeared between five and ten million years ago, Johnson said...
...suggests that lentiviruses were probably around quite a long time ago,” Johnson said. “They were probably causing epidemics in the ancestors of modern primates...