title: Is organ cooperation a compromise?
abstract: It is proposed that since organs of the body evolved due to chance events and therefore do not represent a logical system, compromises between their functions are necessary for survival. Medicine then becomes a study of an essentially disorderly system capable of malfunctioning in unexpected ways.
authors.affiliation: The University of Western Ontario, Toronto, Canada. efrei@sympatico.ca
authors.forename: Jaroslav V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Frei
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D009928:Organ Specificity