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#2: Evolution may select for cancer rates - Dr. Matías Blaustein
Why do some mammals have much lower rates of cancer than others?
There are two standard explanations - but neither is totally satisfying. I spoke with Dr. Matías Blaustein and co-first author Julian Maxwell about their recent paper pu...
Evolution probably uses cancer to its advantage
Much has been written about Peto’s Paradox - the surprising fact that larger animals aren’t bursting at the seams with tumors, rather exhibiting even lower cancer rates than smaller animals.
Cancer rates as a dial on evolution’s mixboard...
The 7 Best Things I Learned in 2025
2025 brought us many advances, and some new findings to inspire optimism.
My top 7 are pretty biology-heavy, both because there were many breakthroughs, and because I fell in love with the field this year.1
Here they are, in no particular...
Championing Progress in a Nihilistic World
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Progress Conference - a gathering of scholars, entrepreneurs, and policymakers devoted to Progress Studies. Understanding the factors that enabled the last few hundred years of soaring living st...
Raccons are self-domesticating. Where does this lead us?
Raccoons are selecting themselves into ‘Domestication Syndrome’
The iNaturalist app continues to enable great science through the wealth of animal data collected by citizen scientists!
The latest study examined 20,000+ images of...
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