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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6221438" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>I think there's a perspective from which you could say that, but I think it's truer that those are environmental results, not evolutionary/genetic. They are the result of increased nutrition for children, and better medical care throughout life.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Our cancer rates are related to a) the byproducts of our industrial society in our environment; b) our increased lifespans; and c) the increase in population, particularly populations which carry a recessive trait. The more Ashkenazi Jews there are, the more cases of diseases common to that population you will encounter (ie, Cystic Fibrosis; Tay-Sachs disease; Canavan disease; Bloom Syndrome; Fanconi Anemia - Type C).</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">In theory, yes, the larger a population, the more outliers you will have. The percentage remains the same, but the actual quantity of individuals per percentage increases. The difficulty would be in recognizing a cancer-immune person (how are they different from someone who just doesn't have cancer?) Also, cancers spring from different sources. I'm not familiar enough with them to say that there's a single magic bullet that will render someone immune to viruses that cause cancers (oncovirus), versus cancers that might arise from a different source.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">The medical treatment of our physical bodies is far outstripping evolution right now. Even if a naturally cancer-immune person arose, how many thousands of years would it take for that person's genes to become omnipresent throughout the human race without gene therapy?</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I think evolution in humans is, at least for now, more likely in areas that we aren't fully aware of, and in the areas that make us most "human". Areas of sociability, adaptability, and communication. Maybe people that are less comfortable around other people are less likely to reproduce in today's society, so we will gradually become more open to others (a happy thought!).</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6221438, member: 70"] I think there's a perspective from which you could say that, but I think it's truer that those are environmental results, not evolutionary/genetic. They are the result of increased nutrition for children, and better medical care throughout life. [COLOR=#000000] Our cancer rates are related to a) the byproducts of our industrial society in our environment; b) our increased lifespans; and c) the increase in population, particularly populations which carry a recessive trait. The more Ashkenazi Jews there are, the more cases of diseases common to that population you will encounter (ie, Cystic Fibrosis; Tay-Sachs disease; Canavan disease; Bloom Syndrome; Fanconi Anemia - Type C). In theory, yes, the larger a population, the more outliers you will have. The percentage remains the same, but the actual quantity of individuals per percentage increases. The difficulty would be in recognizing a cancer-immune person (how are they different from someone who just doesn't have cancer?) Also, cancers spring from different sources. I'm not familiar enough with them to say that there's a single magic bullet that will render someone immune to viruses that cause cancers (oncovirus), versus cancers that might arise from a different source. The medical treatment of our physical bodies is far outstripping evolution right now. Even if a naturally cancer-immune person arose, how many thousands of years would it take for that person's genes to become omnipresent throughout the human race without gene therapy? I think evolution in humans is, at least for now, more likely in areas that we aren't fully aware of, and in the areas that make us most "human". Areas of sociability, adaptability, and communication. Maybe people that are less comfortable around other people are less likely to reproduce in today's society, so we will gradually become more open to others (a happy thought!). [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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