Re: Ancient radiation levels were higher than today's levels

[Harald Weiss <weiss@ki.comcity.de>]

Jacobus, John (OD) schrieb:
> 
> For you reading pleasure from the American Institute of Physics.  Of course,
> this does not validate the idea of hormesis as being a derived from our
> biological past.
> 
>

Well, not yet ...

A while ago I had a short discussion with Andrew on one of my favourite
hypothesis: Having observed out of studies cited in the literature that
lower organised (= older) forms of life show a lower sensitivity against
radiation, I speculated on the possibility that the specific sensitivity
might have been adequate to the level of radiation prevailing at the
time when the species derived. (Just applied Darwinism ...)

Greetings, Harald

These are my personal opinions, which do not necessarily coincide with
those of my employer or his customers.

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Harald Weiss
Preetzer Strasse 263
D-24147 Kiel (Germany)
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