Well, viral recombination anyway. I mentioned in an earlier post that viruses can pick up sections of DNA from each other, while within the host’s cells. Now ERV has a post on this, in a lot more detail (& really well explained – she is a great science communicator!).
Darcy says:
Just a note, thought you might find this post on giraffe evolution interesting.
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=538
Alison Campbell says:
Thanks for this, Darcy 🙂 I’ve finally found time to follow your link – I’ll add it as an update to my original post.