"Peto's paradox" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013, Jonathan Silvertown, The Long and the Short of It: The Science of Life Span and Aging",
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        "The observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism."
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