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The Evolution of Human Health Class
A few years after metair's essay, george williams added on to this by suggesting that those genes that are helpful early in life could also be bad or have negative effects later in life. If your cells grow super fast, that's potentially great when you're developing, right? You get larger faster and can be independent faster. But later on, that could mean uncontrolled cell growth, a k a cancer. Dontenow y. And this is something that's called antagonistic pliotropy. It's one of my favorite concepts, and i love it.