Rebel cell : cancer, evolution and the new science of life
Arney, Kat2020
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Cancer has always been with us. It killed our hominid ancestors, the mammals they evolved from and the dinosaurs that trampled the ground before that. Tumours grow in pets, livestock, and wild animals. Paradoxically, many of us think of cancer as a contemporary killer, a disease of our own making caused by our modern lifestyles. But that's not true. We get cancer because we can't not get it. Cancer starts when cells revolt, throwing off their molecular shackles, and growing and dividing out of control in a shambolic mockery of normal life. Geneticist and science writer Kat Arney takes the reader back to the dawn of life on planet earth right up to the present day to get to the heart of what cancer really is and how by better understanding it we might one day overcome it.
Main title:
Author:
Arney, Kat, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
Collation:
xviii, 390 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474609302 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
571.978571.978 ARNE
Language:
English
BRN:
2229577