A Darwinian eye view of cancer
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Henry Stewart Talks,
2007.
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| Series: | Henry Stewart talks. Biomedical & life sciences collection. Evolution and medicine.
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| Online Access: | https://hstalks.com/bs/154/ Series |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: The prevalence of cancer: man vs. animals
- The proximal causes of cancer: mutations and genotoxic exposures
- Limitations of evolutionary adaptation by natural selection
- Vulnerability to cancer from an evolutionary perspective
- Lack of perfection in evolutionary 'engineering': faults/trade-offs
- Evolutionary adaptation 'has no eyes to the future': mismatches between genetics and lifestyle
- Natural selection will happen: evolution of robust cancer clones
- The only fitness test of 'natural selectability' in evolution is survival and reproductive success: cancer risk escalation in old age.
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