Recent studies on phylogeny and evolution suggest that the tree of life may have a fourth branch. Some of this evidence, says Carl Zimmer at The Loom, comes from a newly-discovered group of viruses, called "giant viruses" because they are about a hundred times bigger than typical viruses and can have more than 1,000 genes.
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