Author(s)

Jingkai Fu ¹, Samuel Choi ², Ao Tian ³, Zhikai Wang ⁴, Junzheng Wang ⁵, Kaiyi Chen ⁶

Affiliation(s)

¹ Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ, 08520, United States
² Taft School, Watertown, CT, 06795, United States
³ St. Mark’s School, Southborough, MA, 01772, United States
⁴ Kent School, Kent, CT, 06757, United States
⁵ Westminster School, Simsbury, CT, 06070, United States
⁶ Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, Nh, 03833, United States

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ABSTRACT

This paper compared cultural and political factors in the cases of the Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 and demonstrated that, since humans dominate the world, their decisions have tremendous impacts on natural selection and, as the society progresses, more evolutionarily successful viruses will emerge.

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Jingkai Fu, Samuel Choi, Ao Tian, Zhikai Wang, Junzheng Wang, Kaiyi Chen. Human Factors in the Evolution of Emerging Viruses. Applied & Educational Psychology (2021) 2: 56-62. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2021.020111.

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