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Why are there imperfect mimics?

Reblogged from Katatrepsis:

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A few colleagues and I recently had a paper published in Nature on "A comparative analysis of the evolutionary of imperfect mimicry". Those of you fortunate to have a Nature subscription can read the paper here.  Alternatively, you can email me and I'll send you a copy.  Unfortunately, I can't make the paper available due to issues with copyright from Nature (see…

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War or Police metaphor in immunology?

Reblogged from Immune modeling:

I am concerned about the use of the police and war metaphor in immunology; you can have a look at my previous post. I find it very difficult to think outside of this specific box. We are taught immunology with this metaphor. We told to communicate about immunology with this metaphor. I have the feeling that I face a wall when I try to think differently.

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