Peto's paradox
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
After Richard Peto.
Proper noun[edit]
- The observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism.
- 2013, Jonathan Silvertown, The Long and the Short of It: The Science of Life Span and Aging:
- Peto's paradox has the clear implication that somehow longer-lived species are better protected from cancer than shorter-lived ones and, likewise, bigger species are better protected than smaller ones.
Further reading[edit]
- Peto's paradox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia