Pathogens, the immune system and social behaviour

Over thirty years ago, a veterinary scientist from the University of California at Davis – Benjamin Hart – first drew the links between pathogenic infections, the immune response, and behaviour, when he formulated his theory of sickness behaviour. At the onset of a severe infection, he said, an animal or human develops a fever thanks […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2aKUygk