Dose response and risk assessment: Evolutionary foundations.

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The present paper indicates that the origin of the LNT concept for ionizing radiation was based on insufficient understanding of evolution, which precluded the possibility of repair of gene mutation. The denial of such repair processes had important implications, leading to a belief in a linear dose response and thus in Hermann J Muller's proclamation of a Proportionality Rule for ionizing radiation. The paper...

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