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How did our complex immune system evolve?

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  1. Max D. Cooper and Brantley R. Herrin are at the Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

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Cooper, M., Herrin, B. How did our complex immune system evolve?. Nat Rev Immunol 10, 2–3 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nri2686

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