[huppeldepup]

You know those youtube videos where a puppet in an arena is shown and it’s iteratively selected/respawn/retrained for getting across an obstacle field? This is exactly that. First obstacle has been cleared and now the population is waiting for a mutation that gets them compatible with the human cell wall.

[pfdietz]

No, not really. When the virus gets into a person right now, it's an evolutionary dead end. There's no iteration going on there.

[adammarples]

This is only true of the virus population in the infected people. The virus population still in birds is still at square 1. When the virus is eradicated from the infected people, we go back to square 1.

[agilob]

Sweet puppy virus solves another puzzle?