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In the coming decades, we'll find that many more diseases than previously thought are caused by yet-unknown pathogens.
by Camillo 7y ago
In the coming decades, we'll find that many more diseases than previously thought are caused by yet-unknown pathogens.
- pfdietz 7y agoThere's good theoretical reason to think that. Evolution should eliminate diseases caused by self-defects, but arms races with pathogens can keep diseases around (either directly, caused by the pathogen, or indirectly, as a tradeoff due to things being selected for to resist the pathogens.)
- Pwhy1 7y agoIf diseases caused by self defects arise mainly after reproducing (say in your 50s/60s/70s), would there be much evolutionary pressure to eliminate it?