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“Arney is a geneticist and science writer, and I would say that Rebel Cell is more a biography of cancer than The Emperor of all Maladies. The book is also very much in line with my own perspective on cancer. We both build on a fundamental evolutionary understanding of life, but whereas Arney goes deeper with regard to cancer biology, I aim to explain cancer in a broader medical, philosophical, and societal context. Rebel Cell explains how cancer is fundamentally related to multicellularity. We are multicellular organisms, and our bodies have not evolved to live forever: they are temporary vessels to propagate the germ cells and, more specifically, the genes to the next generation. In terms of evolutionary biology, that is why we get cancer.” Read more...
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