Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

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Let’s formalize that as a theory. Theory:More regeneration implies more cancer risk. Evolution tunes organs that encounter the environment for more regeneration and more cancer. So there’s no satisfying big-picture evolutionary trade-off to point to. Revised theory v3:More regeneration implies more cancer risk. Evolution tunes organs that encounter the environment for more regeneration and more cancer. Not only does the small intestine have low cancer and high regeneration, it has low cancer because of high regeneration.

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