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Not exactly missing but yeah sure. Whether or not viruses are alive is a troublesome argument. Also we don't know how they first arouse, they might have been one of the first single celled life that decided to "revert" to a more parasitic and simple form attacking other life at the time. So to say they're the link between self-replicating particles and proper life might not be true.

Big if the implications hold up to further scrutiny. Then again the idea of a largely microbial/viral universe has been around for a while and makes the most sense to me. Life is easy to develop, less so to go multicellular/complex and even less so to develop technological intelligence. The...