A Path to Knowledge: from Data to Complex Systems Models of Cancer
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‘The definitive property of individuality at the organismal level lies in the effective suppression of the differential propagation of subparts as a necessary strategy for maintaining functional integrity . . . This suppression has been so effective, while the consequences of failure remain so devastating, that human organisms have coined a word for the cell lineage’s major category of escape from this constraint, a name with power to terrify stable human organisms beyond any other threat to integrity and persistence – cancer.’ (Gould, 2002, p. 695)
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