Comment on How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)parentComments−pitdicker2yPaper that discusses similarities between the envelope glycoprotein of retroviruses and syncytin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758191/This field is called paleovirology, and the paper also discusses in some more detail how fragments of viral DNA can end up in human DNA.
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Paper that discusses similarities between the envelope glycoprotein of retroviruses and syncytin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758191/
This field is called paleovirology, and the paper also discusses in some more detail how fragments of viral DNA can end up in human DNA.