Posted: Jul 19, 2017 1:05 pm
by GrahamH
DavidMcC wrote:... The only example of supposed redundancy that I know of is the various anti-cancer mechanisms that cells within long-lived multi-cellular animals have evolved, but there may well be other functions for most of those in any case, making the "redundancy", to a large extent, imaginary.


My point is that the logic may be unsound. That doesn't need examples, and your vague recollection hardly counts, but thanks anyway.