Panspermia, Octopuses, and Comets 3/6

Evolution driven by retroviruses and extraterrestrial octopuses

Michele Diodati
Amazing Science
Published in
8 min readNov 19, 2021

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Credit: Shutterstock — Virus H1N1

In the cosmic vision of life typical of panspermia, viruses, particularly retroviruses, have primary importance.

Retroviruses from space

Viruses are biological “machines” extraordinarily effective and, at the same time…

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Michele Diodati
Amazing Science

Science writer with a lifelong passion for astronomy and comparisons between different scales of magnitude.