Viruses presumably did evolve from us or our close relatives, since
otherwise they would be unable to persist by taking over our
cellular machinery.
Tricky stuff evolution, natural or otherwise.
Deliberate selection of gene complexes in dogs for instance will
probably have modified wolves, by interbreeding and therefore escape
of the (very successful in evolutionary terms) gene complexes from
domestic and working dogs into wolves...
Indeed thinking a little more widely, the gene complexes extend
beyond the confines of one species - one could talk of evolutionary
pressures and selection for a complex which includes genes present
in dogs and man, which evolve through history in company.
Memes are more interesting though.
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