Why aren’t clonally transmissible rumors ubiquitous? If they occur by nose contact in Tasmanian devils, why not by skin contact in most animals (including humans)? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer …
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Humans do have sex thoughhttps://twitter.com/the_lagrangian/status/1127202658354376706?s=21 …
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Yes, that's the only other likely route, but less likely than wound-to-wound contact. The fact that pregnancy resembles sexually transmitted cancer on an immunological level might make the real thing less likely! Hard to say.
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Regardless, one can say that transmissible cancers exist but new ones have the odds stacked very high against them.
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