RE: Hormesis again?

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

<<A stress reaction (as I pointed out here on Radsafers about 3 years ago) 

may simply mean - "look - you may die indirectly due to genetic and other 

types of damage - so you have better reproduce quickly and as much as

possible so that there is an enhanced probability of a few - and in best 

case mutant survivors with an even better chance of survival".>>



So is this in contradiction to "survival of the fittest"?

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No - I think that it is consistent with Darwinism - it is just that the 

population level sometimes is forgotten.



My personal reflection only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com





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