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Peto's Rule

Peto's Rule is the inversion of Peto's Paradox. It is the Rule of Enforced Enslavement applied specifically to the multi-cellularity fauceir.

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Rational

  • As Peto observed that the risk of cancer increases with the time of exposure to a cancerogene and the number of cells exposed [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/BW4KDG6C" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] , larger and longer living species should posses better tumor suppression to not dies early of a malignancy.
  • As tumor suppression mechanisms can be interpreted as an enslavements mechanism at the organismal level, Petos's rule is just a special case of enforced enslavement.

Examples

  • In elephants a copy number expansion of the TP53 gene is responsible for better tumorsuppression [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/K98A2BW2" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)]
  • Obviously mechanisms of tumorsuppression differs among species the same way as species [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/WTWGIKIH" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] also have a different evolutionary history to increase body size [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/XZWWHA4T" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] .
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Peto's paradox

Peto observed that the risk of cancer increases with the time of exposure to a cancerogene and the number of cells exposed [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/BW4KDG6C" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] .

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Cheater Rule

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Rational

  1. Resources a re just fauceirs used up by an other fauceirs to maintain its existence.
  2. As fauceirs resources of course may interact with other fauceirs not only those that created them.
  3. If resources were plenty, this would trigger the evolution of parasites.

Examples

  • Parasitism is the most typical example.
  • Cancer is the development of cheaters at the multi-cellular level [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/NBAD4X5V" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] .
  • Some social cheaters are well characterized and societies found way to protect from pirates, thieves, and fraudsters.
  • Other social parasites are still under fierce ideological debate.
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