Is creeping abandon of human cancer defences evolutionarily favoured?
This paper investigates whether the evolution of weaker human cancer defenses, which appear after reproductive age, could be favored by natural selection due to potential benefits like calorie saving or continued contribution to tribal well-being.
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The paper investigates whether “creeping abandonment” of human cancer defenses could be favored by evolution, framing the question in an evolutionary biology context rather than focusing on a specific experimental cohort or clinical dataset. It discusses mechanisms and implications using conceptual evolutionary arguments about trade-offs between anti-cancer defenses and other fitness costs. A key limitation is that the provided text does not include study-specific methods, results, or explicit limitations, so the empirical basis cannot be evaluated from the excerpt alone. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.
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