Defending Life The Nature of Host-Parasite Relations /
Defending Life discusses the relationship between hosts and parasites. A major contention of the book is that the immune system depends ontologically on the ecosystem in which it is embedded; it would not have the features it has if it was not related in one way or other to parasitic agents and to t...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5676-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Tracks of thought
- Immunobiology
- Adaptive plasticity
- Natura naturans
- Disabled defences.