The risk of cancer increases with every cell division. As such, you would expect long-lived species like elephants to get cancer more often than short-lived species like mice. In 1975, however, Richard Peto discovered that this is not the case, and that there is very little variation in lifetime-cancer risk between animal species. This is known as Peto's paradox.
    • BitingChaos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That was exactly my thought when I first saw the thread title. “I wonder if it has something to do with dots.”

      And yup, I saw your reply and then checked out the images. Sure enough. Dots.

  • angrystego@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    “Because these mutations are selected within the mycelium, but reduce the fitness of the mycelium as a whole, you can think of them as a kind of ‘nucleus cancers.’”

    Society has the same cancer problem. We need to develope clamp connections quickly.