From an evolutionary point of view, the ones that didn’t have a resistance to cancer, died.
Died too quickly to procreate, specifically.
And yet I’m still here… Arwoooooo~
Yep. This isn’t really oniony. It’s just evolution at work. Something that happens every day.
Yeah !nottheonion is supposed to be absurdist news that sounds completely made up but is real.
This post should have been moderated out.
“Radiation wolves evolved resistance to cancer” doesn’t sound made up to you?
The vast majority of people are totally clueless
let me introduce you to the inclusive or community …
To tell the truth, there’s also a lot of radiations at work.
It’s still external pressure on the species.
Evolution isn’t nearly this fast. It’s not evolution.
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
Two trait variations exist. The environment changes. One variation dies off. The other lives on to procreate. That’s the definition of evolution.
Evolution can be extremely fast, if something happens that causes 95% of a population to die, and the only individuals surviving are unaffected… bam, the population adapted.
Evolution isn’t “slow change over time“. It’s surviving (or procreating) when others didn’t.
it just so happens that until man, most changes in the environment occur gradually.
More like damnthatsinterresting
Did they die or were they never born?
Both? Died before producing offspring.
Never born, as in the genetic combination wasn’t realized.
It’s quite absurd to suggest this is the reason as if the scientists involved in the study would completely overlook the most basic of ideas. It’s a bit of a Dunning Kruger and hubris love child.
Not to mention that the—very short—article even explains the mechanism which refutes your idea.
There is nothing in the article that refutes this, what are you talking about? They explain how they track them, that they get too much radiation and that genetic study shows they have genes to resist damage from this radiation - exactly what would be expected with evolution and of course the process by which this happens is that the non cancer resistant wolves got cancer and died young, it’s not even slightly controversial (unless you’re a creationist)
But that’s what did happen.
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
The wolves with the trait are the ones that live on to procreate. The ones without the trait died off.
So that would make a mark in the pro column for team Jacob.
I wish to both damn and bless you. Well done.
Blursing?
Gesundheit
Tyvm😃
curtsey
so to make humans develope cancer resistence is just nuke enough people?, noted
This is how climate change is going to work.
“Solving global warming with a nuclear winter” sounds like a point from the Trump campaign
Solve climate change with global winter plus we evolve to be cancer resistant? What’s not to love? Fire them bad boys, let’s gooooo chanting WW3 WW3 WW3
In an effort to extend his life, I can’t wait for Bezos to splice nuclear wolf DNA and then get in front of a camera with a wet nose, fangs, and weird Nicholas Cage style long hair from the movie Next (2007) looking like we got “Teen Wolf” at home.
Let those guys inherit the earth, they seem cool.
Somehow this article is non-existent. It just tells you that a team of researchers put collars on the wolves to measure the radiation levels they are exposed to. They found they are pretty high. 6 times the allowed maximum level for humans. But so far they only want to look into how this affects their cancer rates, and how they protect themselves against cancer. There is nothing yet to assume they have developed a resistance, let alone a biological, cellular or genetic mechanism. So… I mean I guess, but so far it is just plans to look into something.
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
Sounds like more than just started monitoring them
I tried to find a publication that would at least show a heatmap (but maybe that’s why these articles are pushed now, maybe the new paper will come.out soon?) of relative gene expression changes. I haven’t found any papers by Love mentioning anything other than radiation measurement (which is also an important field of study and is in no way less of an impressive work). “Altered immune systems” is very, very vague, and specific parts of the genome being modified reads like “oncogenes have mutated”, which wouldn’t be a surprise or shocker.
I want to be clear that I couldn’t find the paper that the article seems to talk about (I couldn’t find any that would mention genetics), that Covid and the war in Ukraine (mandatory Fuck Putin) have obviously slowed down research, and that any kind of doubt I have is absolutely not about the group of scientists doing important and valuable work - just the article’s presentation is very empty and saying little to nothing.
“They got a lot of radiation exposure” “genes that are connected with cancer mutated”, “Wolves don’t get cancer” is not too shocking of a finding and almost to be expected. The devil must be in the details. I’m just disappointed in the article.
Just a few more plot points away to re-enacting Burrow’s End in real life.
Praise The Blue.
They ate my toe
Wolf ghouls?
Wolves. Wolves never change.
…except when they do 🤷
