] Why? It's an evolutionary mystery. The ability to regrow
] legs and eyes seems like a clear Darwinian advantage -
] one that surviving generations would have retained. But a
] paradox of regeneration is that the higher you move up
] the evolutionary chain, the less likely you'll have the
] ability to regrow limbs or organs. Keating's mission:
] figure out the cause of this paradox - and reverse it.

I wonder if giving the cells in a complex organism this kind of regenerative power makes them more likely to become cancerous, and so complex organisms with this feature died out from that.

U: This is what I get for not finishing the article before memeing... They discuss this possibility...

Regrow Your Own Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here.