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Comment by beefield

> . We are essentially living past our primitive life expectancy until something fails which is very recent and evolution has had little time to catch up to this.

To my naive understanding of evolution, it has little incentive to fix anything that breaks after reproduction age. So I would not expect evolution to catch on cancer ever.

parent beefield 7 years ago

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