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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Athena AktipisPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691163840ISBN 10: 0691163847 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 24 March 2020 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAktipis takes an evolutionary approach to cancer, tracing the ways cells 'cheat' natural selection and showing how the human body evolved to outsmart many of those threats. She invites readers to put themselves in the role of a cancer cell and learn about the ways in which the disease and the history of human existence are intertangled. ---Erin Blakemore, Washington Post The Cheating Cell reads like a deep and personal hypothesis coming from a researcher who has spent over a decade studying the evolutionary foundations of cancer. ---David C. S. Filice, Evolution The Cheating Cell makes for fascinating reading and forces a radical reconsideration of what cancer is and how we should deal with it. ---Leon Vlieger, The Inquisitive Biologist Aktipis takes an evolutionary approach to cancer, tracing the ways cells 'cheat' natural selection and showing how the human body evolved to outsmart many of those threats. She invites readers to put themselves in the role of a cancer cell and learn about the ways in which the disease and the history of human existence are intertangled. ---Erin Blakemore, Washington Post Author InformationAthena Aktipis is associate professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center at Arizona State University and cofounder of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer. She is also the host of the science podcast Zombified and the producer of Channel Zed. Twitter @AthenaAktipis Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |