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“Novel environments may contribute to cancer risk in human and nonhuman populations. In evolutionary medicine, this concept is called evolutionary mismatch and corresponds to when the environment/ecology changes faster than the population can adapt.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

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“Cancer is a threat to almost all multicellular species across the tree of life, and neoplastic formation has been a persistent selective pressure since the dawn of multicellularity.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

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“Cancer progression is a complex process that develops across many years of an individual's life. It is not aging, per say, that leads to cancer, but the relationship between aging, the accumulation of mutations and the tissue the microenvironment that harbours potentially mutant cells.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

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