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Is Coronavirus Pushing Humanity Towards an Evolutionary Jump as It Did Long Back When It Initiated Making a Brain?

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Thirty thousand years back, when humans were still primitives, the viruses were more life-like; they could regenerate themselves.

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    Pushpendra Singh

  2. Physics & Electronic and communication, Amity School of Applied Science, Jaipur, India

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  3. National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

    Anirban Bandyopadhyay

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Singh, P., Ray, K., Bandyopadhyay, A. (2022). Is Coronavirus Pushing Humanity Towards an Evolutionary Jump as It Did Long Back When It Initiated Making a Brain?. In: Biological Antenna to the Humanoid Bot. Studies in Rhythm Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9677-0_1

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