Would you tolerate a bomb in your body, waiting to detonate if you deviated from the needs of society?
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Interestingly, if we didn't develop cancer, we wouldn't have the need for apaptosis. There are a good number of creatures on Earth that have been observed to basically never get cancer naturally, however, they also live incredibly long lifespans. Which could lead to population stagnation and limited cultural and biological growth/evolution
Which makes me wonder if cancer an evolutionary benefit, as by killing a species earlier it might promote the species to reproduce more often and, in effect, create faster and faster generational evolutionary and epigenetic changes.
Pros - Faster and consistent genetic and epigenetic change via more frequent and quantitative breeding sessions resulting in rapid generational changes versus species with no internal pressure to breed rapidly, relying solely on external environmental conditions to impact breeding habits resulting in evolutionary change that is slow and inconsistent.
Cons - It's literally cancer.
Insightful post, the one thought I could possibly add is that (in humans at least), in almost all cases (historically speaking), cancer was a death that would occur after breeding age. This makes it harder to argue that it serves any benefit. This (admittedly simple) analysis, combined with the fact that SO MANY cancers have been proven to be caused by gene-mediated environmental factors (e.g. childhood lymphoma and high voltage transformer stations, and breast cancer rates directly linked to BPAs released from consumer plastics) leads me to conclude there is nothing possibly good about it, and it is largely a result of TPTB slowly poising their herd of chattle
Well at that point, we delve into the different types of cancer. As well as naturally occurring cancers vs relatively recent unnaturally occurring cancers, while talking about the potential advantages or disadvantages from an evolutionary/genetic standpoint.