But longer-lived animals get cancer less, not more. I’ve heard this theory before but I don’t quite understand it. It seems to predict that age would be bounded by a trade-off against child cancers. But in fact selection seems to make animals longer-lived pretty easily (e.g. humans vs homo erectus). Naked mole rats barely get cancer at all, afaik. Do baby bats get cancer more than baby mice?
But longer-lived animals get cancer less, not more. I’ve heard this theory before but I don’t quite understand it. It seems to predict that age would be bounded by a trade-off against child cancers. But in fact selection seems to make animals longer-lived pretty easily (e.g. humans vs homo erectus). Naked mole rats barely get cancer at all, afaik. Do baby bats get cancer more than baby mice?