206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
The Michael Shermer Show
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Co-Operation and Competition in Cancer
My mother got a manigioma brain tumor. We had it removed, and then two popped up. And so that's when i found the literature of a jonah faulkner at a harvard medical research in the sixties. I think he postulated that tumors reat an angeogenesis chemical to draw blood vessels to them but they also secrete an anti angeogenic chemical to prevent other tumors from growing. It was almost like a darwinian competition inside a body between tumors. So there you have that tension between co operation and competition. Sometimes what you can also have in these cancerous situations is that the tumours actually will work together. For example
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