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Why adaptive immunity?
DOI:10.1038/s41577-026-01350-x.png)
Abstract
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Adaptive immunity is indispensable to vertebrates, yet most living organisms defend themselves perfectly well without it. Here, I ask why somatically diversified antigen recognition evolved and whether its original advantage extended beyond host defence.
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