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PandemicsBack to A FOREVER VIRUS?David QuammenAuthor of "Spillover"ISPI | 5David Quammen is an American science, nature, and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. His articles have appeared in Outside Magazine, National Geographic, Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and other periodicals. ITALIAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL STUDIESTHE WORLD IN 2022Predicting the vagaries of evolution is a risky game, maybe riskier even than other forms of prediction, and it’s best left to the wisest of seers. Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with an eleven-inch proboscis, after inspecting a blossom of the Star of Bethlehem orchid, from Madagascar, and seeing its eleven-inch-deep nectary spur. There must be a corresponding moth in Madagascar, suitabtly evolved to pollinate that flower, Darwin wrote. Twenty year later, the moth was discovered. But of course Darwin was predicting, from tangible evidence, something that had already happened, an easier feat than predicting the evolutionary future.The evolutionary future of the Covid pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, is harder to know, even as we watch a succession of variants - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and most recently Omicron - arise and spread by multiple mutation
ISPI | 6THE WORLD IN 2022and Darwinian natural selection. We have questions, and the scientists need more data befo...
