Athena Aktipis
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
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You have just completely mind-blowing population sizes, right?
And once you start getting, you know, mutations existing, which like, you know, you can get what's called a mutator phenotype where then, you know, mutations just sort of like going crazy.
You know, it's just there's so much variation.
So if you have, you know, those kinds of parameters, then evolution by natural selection and also, you know, drift, too.
But evolution by natural selection can go really, really fast.
And you can get, you know, the opportunity for, you know, evolution by natural selection to operate faster.
You know, just over the course of like cancer progression is much vaster than all of the evolutionary time that we have had, you know, as humans since, you know, Homo sapiens came about.
Right.
So it's it's a lot.
It's, you know, orders of magnitude more.
And so.
We just have to like shift to a different scale.
Like I almost think of it in like the body is a world with all these different like ecosystems in it.
And the cells, you know, like they're existing on a time scale that like, you know, if we're going to map it on to anything like what we experience, like a day is at least, you know, 10 years for them.
Right.
So it's like.
It's a very, very different way of thinking.
And once you kind of shift to that, you're like, oh, wow, there's so much that could be happening in terms of adaptation inside the body.
You know how cells are actually evolving inside the body over the course of our lifetimes.
And and that that shift just opens up, you know, all this potential.
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