One practical application is in immunology. We know that we have to develop a new flu vaccine every year because there is a new flu virus every year. If viruses did not evolve, the same vaccine would work from year to year.
BTW: The scientists that develop the new vaccines need to keep abreast of how and why the virus evolves. They need to know the kind of information in those long, boring reports of which loudmouth has posted the abtracts. Those reports contain the information you keep asking for. But of course you don't care. You have alreaady determined that they are not relevent, at least not to you. But then, as you said, you are not a biologist or a geneticist (nor are you an immunologist, though you'll gladly benefit from their hard work while denying that the basis for it is in any way "practical.")
And an abstract is just a (relatively short summary of the key points of a report. The fact that "clade" was only mentioned once, and "phylogeny" was only mentioned a few times in the abstract does not mean that they were not important. The fact that they werementioned at all means that they had a major impact. To discover how major, it is necessary to read the entire report. But if you are not going to read the abstract because it is too long and technical, that does not bode well for your patience to examine the whole report.
BTW: The scientists that develop the new vaccines need to keep abreast of how and why the virus evolves. They need to know the kind of information in those long, boring reports of which loudmouth has posted the abtracts. Those reports contain the information you keep asking for. But of course you don't care. You have alreaady determined that they are not relevent, at least not to you. But then, as you said, you are not a biologist or a geneticist (nor are you an immunologist, though you'll gladly benefit from their hard work while denying that the basis for it is in any way "practical.")
And an abstract is just a (relatively short summary of the key points of a report. The fact that "clade" was only mentioned once, and "phylogeny" was only mentioned a few times in the abstract does not mean that they were not important. The fact that they werementioned at all means that they had a major impact. To discover how major, it is necessary to read the entire report. But if you are not going to read the abstract because it is too long and technical, that does not bode well for your patience to examine the whole report.
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