These are commonly referred to as «symptoms» of a viral infection but are actually part of a well - trained
evolutionary defense mechanism.
Not exact matches
From an
evolutionary perspective, the findings reveal that sophisticated immune
defense mechanisms in respiratory surfaces came about very early in vertebrate evolution.
The research team used the so - called oxidative burst — an old
evolutionary mechanism to kill off bacteria via
defense cells — to study how rat cells responded to changes in gravity.
Sometimes it is a great
defense mechanism from in our
evolutionary past and is quite useful.