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okay so explain our short telomeres promoting cancer

what are armchair archeologists going to say, “thats because it enabled strong community ties and the humans with long telomeres didn't value life as strongly” as opposed to being a total freak accident that had nothing to do with anything



> okay so explain our short telomeres promoting cancer

They don't kill us before we procreate. Evolution checks out at childbirth so you get "genetic drift".


> the answer is always "it doesn't kill or sterilize you before you reproduce"

QED


Compare to inflammation which might kill 1 in 10,000 before reproduction. Cancer in seniors doesn't.




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