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Comment author: Vaniver 23 February 2016 04:45:59PM 3 points [-]

You mean competition between cells in a multi-cellular organism? They don't compete, they come from the same DNA and they "win" by perpetuating that DNA, not their own self. Your cells are not subject to evolution -- you are, as a whole.

Doesn't this line of reasoning prove the non-existence of cancer?

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 February 2016 05:23:52PM 0 points [-]

In the long-term cancer sells die with the organism that hosts them. Viruses also do kill people regularly and die with their hosts.

Comment author: Vaniver 23 February 2016 07:58:06PM 1 point [-]

Sure. The impression one gets from this is that an answer to James_Miller's question is that they frequently fail to solve that problem, and then die.

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