Human Factors in the Evolution of Emerging Viruses

• DOI: 10.23977/appep.2021.020111
• Publication Date: 2021-09-16
• Authors: Jingkai Fu; Samuel Choi; Ao Tian; Zhikai Wang; Junzheng Wang; Kaiyi Chen
• Keywords: Viral evolution

This paper compared cultural and political factors in the cases of Ebola virus SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated that, since humans dominate world, their decisions have tremendous impacts on natural selection and, as society progresses, more evolutionarily successful viruses will emerge.