The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer

Author:   Athena Aktipis
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691163840


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Athena Aktipis
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691163840


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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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 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


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Athena 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

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