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Linking ecological immunology and evolutionary medicine: the case for apolipoprotein E

2011-02-01

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1. Evolutionary medicine seeks to understand whether and to what extent aspects of human disease are adaptations for coping with infections or injuries, or the consequence of mismatches between modern and ancestral environments. Ecological immunology by comparison focuses largely on how organisms balance investments in immune defences against other traits (e.g., cognitive and reproductive functions) to maximize fi...

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Literature Corpus work: 80199ca3-aaf3-5102-a209-73d2df3aa0df
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01780.x

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