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The modern age has possibly removed some carcinogens like inhaling smoke from (bon)fires, mycotoxins from spoilt food, nutritional illiteracy and unsanitary conditions. But the modern age has introduced a lot of new ones like tobacco, food additives, sugar, gluten, radiation, asbestos, industrial processing of food, pesticides, sedentary lifestyle.
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Moles don't stop growing primarily because of telomere length but because the human genome has effective methods of controlling cancer. You get cancer something like 4 times a day but the cells are terminated. (It is possible telomeres play some part in this, but I have never seen it proposed.) What you are likely trying to broach is the question "do organisms evolve to die?" the answer to which is "yes." This was or…
Imagine humans who can't die from old age: how many would choose to do anything dangerous? Would you risk your life crossing a road? Working on a construction site?
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Is there any evidence supporting this hypothesis?
For context: the molecular shape of gluten causes dough to hold better. Wheat with more gluten gives softer bread which rises better. Hence why gluten is so prevalent in domesticated wheat.
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Moles don't stop growing primarily because of telomere length but because the human genome has effective methods of controlling cancer. You get cancer something like 4 times a day but the cells are terminated. (It is possible telomeres play some part in this, but I have never seen it proposed.) What you are likely trying to broach is the question "do organisms evolve to die?" the answer to which is "yes." This was or…
Imagine humans who can't die from old age: how many would choose to do anything dangerous? Would you risk your life crossing a road? Working on a construction site?
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Moles don't stop growing primarily because of telomere length but because the human genome has effective methods of controlling cancer. You get cancer something like 4 times a day but the cells are terminated. (It is possible telomeres play some part in this, but I have never seen it proposed.) What you are likely trying to broach is the question "do organisms evolve to die?" the answer to which is "yes." This was or…
Imagine humans who can't die from old age: how many would choose to do anything dangerous? Would you risk your life crossing a road? Working on a construction site?
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They are extinct, so supporting his hypothesis ? It's not like evolution is a design process in which something gets "traded off" - random shit happens, something sticks.
> They are extinct, so supporting his hypothesis Or they were hunted to death by organised groups of early humans. Wales are probably only surviving because their environment is so foreign to humans.
One thing which I always thought of, but which the article doesn't mention, is age. Especially older people seem more prone to cancer, so in my mind a lower life expectancy will naturally lead to a lower cancer rate, as people die before cancer "is able to get them". Or am I missing something?
Turns out it was curing the , but the next thing the population would statistically die of was: heart attacks.
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Moles don't stop growing primarily because of telomere length but because the human genome has effective methods of controlling cancer. You get cancer something like 4 times a day but the cells are terminated. (It is possible telomeres play some part in this, but I have never seen it proposed.) What you are likely trying to broach is the question "do organisms evolve to die?" the answer to which is "yes." This was or…
Imagine humans who can't die from old age: how many would choose to do anything dangerous? Would you risk your life crossing a road? Working on a construction site?