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Malignancy may contribute to rapid evolution
1Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
Medical Hypotheses
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Characteristics of malignant tumors, including anaerobic metabolism and metastases to lung, liver, bone and brain, may permit the enhanced survival of edited parts of the genome during periods of rapid environmental change. Carcinogenesis may be partially analogous to fossilization.