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Cancer

The Evolutionary Legacy

9780192628343
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In this lucid and entertaining book, Mel Greaves argues that evolutionary biology offers a new perspective that can help us unravel the riddle of cancer. Why, for example, have women always had such a raw deal in the cancer stakes? And why are some cancers, such as prostate cancer, increasing in incidence? Greaves argues that Darwinian selection millions of years ago has endowed our genes and cells with inherently cancerous credentials, and this is exacerbated by our rapid social evolution and exotic behavioural traits that outpace genetic adaptation. The book is full of novel insights, the latest scientific discoveries, and wonderful historical anecdotes. It provides a unique portrait of cancer, past, present, and future.
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OUP Oxford
85143
9780192628343
9780192628343

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Publication date
2001
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
288
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 234
Weight (g)
451
  • Preface; PART I: CANCER - ANCIENT LEGACIES AND MODERN MYTHS; Perplexed? You should be; The King of Naples and other silent witnesses; Questions and answers; PART II: EVOLVING CANCER; Clones, clones, clones; The way we are: risk and restraints; How cancer cells play the winning game; Green-eyed mutations?; Blind chance - and ultimate extinction?; PART III: PARADOXES OF PROGRESS: INDECENT EXPOSURES; Is cancer an evolutionary inevitability?; And then you set fire to it?; Womens troubles; Mens troubles; Cancer a deux; Other ways of getting bugged; Travelling light; Dying for a living; Collateral damage; Finale: compounding risk with bad luck; PART IV: FINESSING THE CLONE; Treatment: the blind marksman; Epilogue: cancer in the 21st century; Index;
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