Saturday, 26 January 2013

How can evolutionary biology explain why we get cancer?

London, UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2013



Over 500 billion cells in our bodies will be replaced daily, yet natural selection has enabled us to develop defenses against the cellular mutations which could cause cancer. It is this relationship between evolution and the body's fight against cancer which is explored in a new special issue of the Open Access journal Evolutionary Applications.

"Cancer is far from a single well-defined....