Q: In Darwin's Radio, you wrote about the evolution of a new human species that is triggered by an HERV, or Human Endogenous Retrovirus — which, if I understand correctly, is a kind of ancient virus that has entered into human DNA and persisted
there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years.
When the new legislative session began
in Albany earlier this month,
there was an immediate shake - up of the long -
dormant state Senate ethics committee, throwing the always - simmering chamber to a quick boil.