Big Picture Science – Evolutionary Arms Race: Ann Reid / Virus Evolution

by Gary Niederhoff on June 22, 2015

Evolutionary Arms Race – Ann Reid
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Part 2 of Skeptic Check: Evolutionary Arms Race, featuring Ann Reid, molecular biologist, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, Oakland, California, discussing her work studying the 1918 Spanish Flu virus and its mutation which surfaced as Swine Flu in 2009.

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