Peto's paradoxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Peto's paradox

1. The observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism.
   • 2013, Jonathan Silvertown, The Long and the Short of It: The Science of Life Span and Aging:

     Peto's paradox has the clear implication that somehow longer-lived species are better protected from cancer than shorter-lived ones and, likewise, bigger species are better protected than smaller ones.

Further reading

• Peto's paradox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia