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The resemblance, according to Essex and Kanki, was “not close enough to make it likely that SIV was an immediate precursor of HIV in people.” More likely, those two viruses represented neighboring twigs on a single phylogenetic branch, separated by lots of evolutionary time and probably some extant intermediate forms.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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