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Article
Nature 218, 426-430 (4 May 1968) | doi:10.1038/218426a0
Evolution of the Immune Process in Vertebrates
F. M. BURNET
- University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Abstract
This article is a slightly up-dated version of the presidential address to the Australian Society of Immunologists given by Sir Macfarlane Burnet in December 1967. He suggests that the mammalian immune system could have evolved from the haemocyte or primitive mobile cell of the invertebrate.
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