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Evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up

• quantified 5y ago
  > Perhaps cancer can also be addressed as a disease of modularity: the mechanisms by which body cells cooperate can occasionally break down, leading to a reversion of cells to their unicellular past – a more selfish mode in which they treat the rest of the body as an environment within which they reproduce maximally. Whole thing is thought-provoking.