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Nature paper: Shocking new role found for the immune system

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natasa778

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Kina said:
So I am reading this research as the blocking of the molecule resulted in the mice isolating themselves more or being less social. It seems like a huge leap to go on to suggest that the immune molecule plays a 'profound role in maintaining proper social function' and how do you define proper social function in mice and how does this translate to humans. I would say in animals it's about survival rather than being 'social'.
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Everything in humans is about survival too, no difference there, we only differ in levels of complexity of interactions (and that is from our perspective anyway, zebrafish might disagree :))

Sociability in humans has arisen from and is still a function of survival, both of individuals and of our species as a whole. If we were not social and sociable we would perish as a species, it is as simple as that.
 
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