Overview
- Supplements existing textbooks on immunology by providing an evolutionary perspective on the subject
- Unifies and explains the diversity of the immune system by placing it in its evolutionary context
- Helps students to fit their own area of interest into context with this complex field
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Starting from Dobzhansky’s famous slogan, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”, this book will serve to illuminate how evolutionary forces shaped immunity and thus provide an explanation for how many of its counter intuitive oddities arose. By doing so it will provide a conceptual framework on which students may organise the rapidly growing flood of immunological knowledge.
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Book Title: Evolutionary Concepts in Immunology
Authors: Robert Jack, Louis Du Pasquier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18667-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18666-1Published: 04 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18669-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18667-8Published: 13 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 145
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology