[muawiyah]

BTW, I'm still into believing there are only half a dozen real species of salmon, and all of them taste good ~ these guys are just playing with words (not biology at all) as they create these strange ways of identifying species.

Right now, all we have to do is figure out how the tens of millions, or even billions or trillions of virus genes in the sea get moved from that environment into our own genomes where some of them "do stuff".

[Mamzelle]

re: these guys are just playing with words (not biology at all) as they create these strange ways of identifying species)))

Implicit is the demand that you accept the terms that they decide to set. It's called "controlling behavior" and is a symptom of OC disorder.

I am often ingrigued by the similarities of trout and salmon. The flesh of both tastes somewhat alike to me (of course, the trout is more delicate.) But trout even look like salmon.

[gleeaikin]

Millions of viruses in the sea.

The genetic material from lower life forms in the sea probably got into the human genome via our ancestors the amphibians who probably got when they were still in the sea and passed it on to us.