Darwin's Radio follows the activities of Kaye Lang, prominent virus researcher and publisher of articles hinting that there might be other mechanisms, that we are not aware of, to speed up evolutionary traits. The story also follows Mitch Rafelson, who is an archeologist trying to discover whether rumours of ancient remains in a Swiss glacier are actually corresponding to reality.

Kaye Lang has already proposed the possibility of viruses that would have genetic information encoded and would cause the hosts to react in a manner that does not seem to follow from its own genetic footprint. It turns out that there is such a virus, and it it nicknamed SHEVA. The virus starts to cause a mass of abnormal terminations in all women. However, the women will get pregnant (without further sexual activity) and would also show symptoms of nonhuman behaviour (strange skin patches, releasing strange scents). Some of the pregnant women will eventually shed mutated viruses that would infect and kil...

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