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From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 1/27/2025
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 1/27/2025
A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but an impressive capacity for self-repair. Nevertheless, things do occasionally break down, and cancer is one of the most dramatic examples of such breakdown.…