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I hope my cells don't evolve during my lifespan, because if they do it means I have cancer.

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• schiffern 11y ago
  Don't worry, the cancer will then evolve politicians, who will hail that evolution as an unprecedented innovation, claiming that only further innovation and economic growth will solve cancer's problems. They'll point out how cancer cells are special compared to other cells: how they've conquered the natural causes of death and overcome many logistical obstacles to build a complex high-density society with a rich history and lots of diversity. Intrepid cells (no doubt sick of the crowding in their native tumor) will sometimes set out to explore and colonize the unruly wild parts of the body. It will be hard, but a few of those colonists will succeed in establishing far-flung outposts. Surely there will be a few environmentalist cancer cells that oppose the "development" of the body, but the common perception among cancer cells will likely be that those cells are just standing in the way of progress, and anyway that the body is so vast that a single cancer cell can't do very much to effect the outcome. /remove tongue from cheek ;)