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>If you have a species in a high-radiation environment, is it not possible that it evolves to have fewer reproductive mutations in general - and therefore lower
by anonymfus 13y ago
>If you have a species in a high-radiation environment, is it not possible that it evolves to have fewer reproductive mutations in general - and therefore lower chance of cancer?
IIRC there were studies of Chernobyl cows which showed that in such conditions genotype evolves such way that random mutations have less effects on phenotype, at cost of loss of specialisation.
- anonymfus 13y agoI found that article, it's in Russian: http://www.hij.ru/read/issues/2010/may/957/ http://www.hij.ru/read/issues/2010/may/957/ I read it on elementy.ru: http://elementy.ru/lib/431228 http://elementy.ru/lib/431228