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Also,this sars cov-2 virus will not infect bats. That really hurts the 'it came from the bats' theory.

>>swader+(OP)
That’s not how viruses work.

>>swader+(OP)
Define "will not infect bats".

Bats have a very unusual immune system in that they can harbor viruses without the virus killing the bat or the bat killing the virus.

It's one of the things that makes them ferociously good incubators for a cross-species mammalian plague. The other things are that they fly (so can cover larger distances than most mammals) and have communal living (so can transmit to each other very readily).

>>swader+(OP)
Similarly, humans can't impregnate chimpanzees. That really hurts the "humans evolved from apes" theory

>>__s+WC
Since this is a common misconception, I'll note that humans didn't evolve from apes or chimpanzees. We share a relatively close common ancestor with them.

>>anikan+nJ
Ape is a broad enough term (& fuzzy) that depending on context humans could be considered included or excluded from the category, meanwhile chimps & that common ancestor do fit into the category

Hence I didn't say we evolved from chimpanzees, even though it'd've suited the snow clone better