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 CANCER/EVOLUTION relates advances in cancer research from the 1920s to the present as told by the original researchers, their biographers and contemporaries.      

In a world shaped by an ever-changing swirl of social and political influences – from Nazism to corporate profits – our protagonists remain dedicated to advancing human understanding of cancer. 

• Dr. Otto Warburg,  an arrogant gay Jewish German under aegis of the Nazi regime, is arguably the greatest scientist of the 20th century. His discoveries are the foundation for the metabolic theory of cancer but were disregarded as his reputation declined and public nterest focused on DNA.
• Dr. Robert Weinberg, the discoverer of both the first human oncogene and first tumor suppressor a gene, co-authored the most cited scientific cancer paper ever published.  His work resulted in life-saving advancements in chemotherapy and, many believe, helped cement the genetic mutation theory of cancer.
• Dr. Paul Davies,  legendary astrophysicist who has authored over 20 books on quantum  physics, was commissioned by the National Cancer Institute to develop an  "outside the box" perspective on cancer. His atavistic, or evolutionary, model of cancer and supports the metabolic theory.
• Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried synthesized and updated decades of reproducible but discarded research supporting the metabolic theory in his 2012 book Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. His work has launched a flood of new research and therapies.