The wolves are exposed to cancer-causing radiation as they roam the wastelands of the abandoned city - with researchers finding part of their genetic information seems resilient to increased risk of the disease.
It’s quite absurd to suggest this is the reason as if the scientists involved in the study would completely overlook the most basic of ideas. It’s a bit of a Dunning Kruger and hubris love child.
Not to mention that the—very short—article even explains the mechanism which refutes your idea.
There is nothing in the article that refutes this, what are you talking about? They explain how they track them, that they get too much radiation and that genetic study shows they have genes to resist damage from this radiation - exactly what would be expected with evolution and of course the process by which this happens is that the non cancer resistant wolves got cancer and died young, it’s not even slightly controversial (unless you’re a creationist)
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
The wolves with the trait are the ones that live on to procreate. The ones without the trait died off.
It’s quite absurd to suggest this is the reason as if the scientists involved in the study would completely overlook the most basic of ideas. It’s a bit of a Dunning Kruger and hubris love child.
Not to mention that the—very short—article even explains the mechanism which refutes your idea.
There is nothing in the article that refutes this, what are you talking about? They explain how they track them, that they get too much radiation and that genetic study shows they have genes to resist damage from this radiation - exactly what would be expected with evolution and of course the process by which this happens is that the non cancer resistant wolves got cancer and died young, it’s not even slightly controversial (unless you’re a creationist)
But that’s what did happen.
The wolves with the trait are the ones that live on to procreate. The ones without the trait died off.