SciTech Daily  October 4, 2021 An international team of researchers (Australia, USA – University of Arizona, UC San Francisco) applied evolutionary analyses to human genomic datasets to recover selection events involving tens of human genes that interact with coronaviruses that likely started more than 20,000 years ago. Multiple lines of functional evidence support an ancient viral selective pressure, and East Asia is the geographical origin of several modern coronavirus epidemics. An arms race with an ancient coronavirus, or with a different virus that happened to use similar interactions as coronaviruses with human hosts, may thus have taken place in ancestral East […]