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Immunity in natural history

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Chicago Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:43:29Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:43:29Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.descriptionNobel Conference XXVIII. Lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College, October 1992.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 372).
dc.description.abstractImmunity, involving a struggle for health, is also the defense of biological identity, and, in advanced species, of an idiographic self. The identity of any such "self," though protected by immunity, is enlarged by kin selection, sexuality, reproduction, and caring for offspring. The environment "foreign" from the perspective of immunity is "home" from the perspective of ecology. Immunity makes evolution possible. Immunity, in which an organism acquires information during its biography, is the evolution of ordered control and results in values shared as well as selves defended. Errors here are intrinsic to trial and error learning, a process with analogies in the science of immunology.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Immunity in Natural History, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 39, no. 3 (Spring 1996): 353-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.1996.0025
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.1996.0025
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/41100
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectkin selection
dc.subjectselfish
dc.subjectself
dc.subjectimmunity
dc.subjectecology
dc.subjectnatural history
dc.titleImmunity in natural history
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