On Mar 12, 8:42*am, dgk wrote:

Hmm. SInce cancer is an overgrowth of cells, I suppose a single-celled
creature is immune to cancer. Or it becomes twins.

There is a school of thought that has some considerable merit that
suggests that as cancer is an accretion of mutated cells, complex life
forms such as people represent what happens when one-celled life forms
become cancerous.

There is a Charles Addams cartoon - two amoebas at the bottom of the
last ocean after a nuclear holocaust deciding whether to get together
to start over. One says to the other: OK, only this time, no brains.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA