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> some natural phenomenon vastly accelerated its mutation

Natural recombination [1] vs gain-of-function lab work. Some of the lab work leverages natural recombination by artificially co-infecting lab animals with multiple viruses and studying the resulting chimeras.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_virus#Natural_re...



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