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)?
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maybe it has to do with that most of the skin is already pre-cancerous [citation needed] so the competition is really fierce
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ah found the citation
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wow this is great: organism-as-platform, necessarily taking the form of that which can successfully internalize the value of competition
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it would also be a great troll if sufficiently low sun exposure caused melanoma due to lack of competitors to cells that did mutate
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