GIANT VIRUS

Could mankind be descending from a giant virus?

Format: HD
Duration: 52’
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Available version: English
Rights: All Rights | Southeast Asia

Synopsis

Mimivirus (for microbe mimicking virus) is the first member of a family of unsuspected organisms, some vastly different from each other, all astonishing by their sizes, genes, and ‟performances” - one of them has survived 30,000 years in the Siberian permafrost.

These giant viruses seem to fill the gap between the viral and the living cell worlds. Do they represent a new branch of life on our planet? Were their distant ancestors living creatures? And could these ancestors have been at the very origin of all the eukaryotes, which we are part of? In other words: could mankind be descending from a giant virus?

A field of new research is opening with this film dedicated to a new animal species.