Comments on: Book review – The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer/2021/08/23/book-review-the-cheating-cell-how-evolution-helps-us-understand-and-treat-cancer/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:26:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/08/23/book-review-the-cheating-cell-how-evolution-helps-us-understand-and-treat-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-95058Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:07:23 +0000/?p=14978#comment-95058[…] explores how the logic underlying evolution by natural selection can be expanded to e.g. cancer cells (somatic evolution) and material culture (technospheric evolution). Eldredge here draws on his […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/08/23/book-review-the-cheating-cell-how-evolution-helps-us-understand-and-treat-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-43578Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:05:10 +0000/?p=14978#comment-43578[…] of our extended lifespan can result in random mutations building up and culminating in cancer (though some argue that cancer is perhaps best thought of as a feature of life, rather than a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/08/23/book-review-the-cheating-cell-how-evolution-helps-us-understand-and-treat-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-33431Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:58:24 +0000/?p=14978#comment-33431[…] sounds an awful lot like cancer, well, that is because it is – evolution and cancer are closely linked. And how about this? If such a jumping gene mutates and becomes a genetic switch, they can insert […]

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