[allmendream]

ERV’s are called the “smoking gun” of common descent. I don’t know about ‘best evidence for evolution’ but if you could explain why the data collected so far is consistent with common descent yet is somehow NOT due to common descent but some other phenomenon or mechanism you would probably win the Nobel Prize.

There is no “fossil record” of ERV’s or Vitamin C Synthase, unless you count the ‘fossilized’ insertion of a retrovirus genome into a common ancestor as being part of the ‘fossil record’. I don’t know anyone else that does.

[GodGunsGuts]

Still, I will give your questions the due dilligence that they deserve. I may come up empty on this one, but I want to know what is known on the subject nonetheless.

BTW, thanks for asking such excellent questions.

[GodGunsGuts]

You still there, Allmendream? If you are, I have a few comments and questions re: Vitamin C Synthase and ERVs.