Immune evasion is the real evolutionary triumph
Conventional evolutionary narrative has accustomed us to a story of triumph: an expanding neocortex that, emerging from the savannas of East Africa, allowed Homo sapiens to position themselves at the pinnacle of the biological world. We view ourselves as the…
Conventional evolutionary narrative has accustomed us to a story of triumph: an expanding neocortex that, emerging from the savannas of East Africa, allowed Homo sapiens to position themselves at the pinnacle of the biological world. We view ourselves as the apex of nature due to our ability to manipulate the environment, decipher the cosmos, and articulate abstract thought. However, when contemporary molecular biology and genomics examine the fissures in our …
Immune evasion is the real evolutionary triumph
