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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

576 points · 293 comments · jbotz

  1. card_zero · · focus · HN ↗
    > Evolution decided the good outweighed the bad, and I expect that evolution was right.

    We can expect evolution to do the right thing for the genes. Not for us.

    1. creatonez · · focus · HN ↗
      Selfish gene theory is discredited as reductionist and mostly wrong. You can't ignore the whole organism.
      1. jamiek88 · · focus · HN ↗
        Says who? Please expand on this discrediting.
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