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The available evidence suggests that structural complexity growth is a fundamental law of nature. In living organisms, the structural complexity becomes structural-functional complexity, but the tendency to its growth is conserved. Structural-functional complexity growth in living organisms is a multilevel process that consists of frozen coincidences of complexity growth events at different levels. Frozen coincidences are stabilized by structural-functional feedback interactions and conserved in geological time by natural selection. Populations of tumor-bearing animals could be unstable transitory forms in progressive evolution. Atypical tumor organs can represent transitory structures and should be looked for in fossil records.
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