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by butlike 804 days ago
GreatGrandparent->setCancerChancePercent(10);

Grandparent->mutateCancerChancePercent("+|-", 3);

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By banning access to GreatGrandparent's getCancerChancePercent(); method, I won't know what the starting chance was, which will make it harder to determine nature vs. nurture. Isn't that what ancestry and genome mapping is doing? Going back up the tree?