On Monday, October 26, 2020, 03:25:41 AM PDT, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html
Full disclosure: While I consider myself conversant with many sciences and technologies, 'biology' is probably my area of least knowledge. I rapidly skimmed this article, but was doubtful when I saw this: > "RaTG13 looks like a “close cousin” of the Wuhan coronavirus – the two are > 96% identical throughout the whole sequence of the viral genome. If RaTG13 is > a nature-borne virus, one can comfortably conclude that the Wuhan coronavirus > must very likely also come from nature and must share a recent common > ancestor with RaTG13." [end of quote] My impression is that if two viruses are ONLY "96% identical" "throughout the whole sequence of the viral genome", they shouldn't be described as a "close cousin". Should it be called a "not-so-close cousin"? I don't know.
