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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Darwin's Radio about Neanderthal with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: All the best thrillers contain the solution to a mystery, and the mystery in this intellectually sparkling scientific thriller is more crucial and stranger than most. Why are people turning against their neighbors and their newborn children? And what is causing an epidemic of still births? A disgraced paleontologist and a genetic engineer both come across evidence of cover-ups in which the government is clearly up to no good. But no one knows what's really going on, and the government is covering up because that is what, in thrillers as in life, governments do. And what has any of this to do with the discovery of a Neanderthal family whose mummified faces show signs of a strange peeling?
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Neanderthal with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction? End with the sentence '\nIt was not until viable second stage fetuses were born that the idea of SHEVA being a part of evolution rather than a disease began to grow from a few isolated sources.'.
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conversations.value: Darwin's Radio: In the novel, a new form of endogenous retrovirus has emerged, SHEVA.\nIt controls human evolution by rapidly evolving the next generation while in the womb, leading to speciation.\nThe novel follows several characters as the "plague" is discovered as well as the panicked reaction of the public and theS.\ngovernment to the disease.\nBuilt into the human genome are non-coding sequences of DNA called introns.\nIn Darwin\'s Radio, certain portions of these "non-sense" sequences, remnants of prehistoric retroviruses, have been activated and are translating numerous LPCs (large protein complexes).\nThe activation of SHEVA and its consequential sudden speciation was postulated to be either controlled by a complex genetic network that perceives a need for modification or a human adaptive response to overcrowding.\nThe disease, or rather, gene activation, is passed on laterally from male to female as per an STD.\nIf impregnated, a woman in her first trimester who has contracted SHEVA will miscarry a deformed female fetus made of little more than two ovaries.\nThis "first stage fetus" leaves behind a fertilized egg with fifty-two chromosomes rather than the typical forty-six characteristic of Homo sapiens sapiens.\nDuring the third trimester of the second stage pregnancy, both parents go into a pre-speciation puberty to prepare them for the needs of their novel child.\nFacial pigmentation changes underneath the old skin which begins sloughing off like a mask.\nVocal organs and olfactory glands alter and sensitize respectively, to adapt for a new form of communication.\nFor over a year after the first SHEVA outbreak in the United States, no second stage fetus was recorded to have been born alive.\nThe new human species was highly sensitive to all varieties of herpes and could not be viably born to a mother who had ever been infected with any of the virus\' many forms, including Epstein-Barr and the chickenpox — thus eliminating 95% of the female population.\nAnesthetics and pitocin administered during childbirth were also lethal.\nSo while many women would contract activated SHEVA, few would be able to successfully give birth, making the transition from Homo sapiens sapiens to the new human species very gradual.\nThe international response to the threat of SHEVA was to form a special task force that would work alongside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to find a vaccine.\nBecause the "disease", called "Herod\'s Flu", was already in the genome of every person on Earth, the only two options were to either inhibit the activation of the SHEVA gene by discovering the signal it used or to abort the second stage fetus.\nDue to the rapid mutation rate of the missing-link signal molecule, preventing the activation of the gene was infeasible.\nThe second option, abortion, was already a controversial issue and the proposal of handing out free RU 486 was met with social upheaval, adding to the already chaotic social scene.\nThe general public believed that the government was either not placing due importance on the death of countless fetuses, or already had a cure and refused to release it.\nIn response, government research facilities were forced to test prospective treatments prematurely and could not pursue explanations for SHEVA outside of the "disease" category because of the potential reactions from the masses.\nIt was not until viable second stage fetuses were born that the idea of SHEVA being a part of evolution rather than a disease began to grow from a few isolated sources.