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Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?

5 Dec 2019

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Why a postfertile stage has evolved in females of some species has puzzled evolutionary biologists for over 50 years. We propose that existing adaptive explanations have underestimated in their formulation an important parameter operating both at the specific and the individual levels: the balance between cancer risks and cancer defenses. During their life, most multicellular organisms naturally accumulate...

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PMID: 31805037
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000565

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