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I think that confuses:

A: What behaviors or environments lead to adult immune systems calibrated to minimize autoimmune dysfunctions.

B: Comparing populations that already/ haven't developed inherited countermeasures against certain diseases.

C: (In some cases) Specific pathogens where it is less-damaging to encounter them at different phases of life.

In particular, I'd point out that sometimes a population strong against a particular disease does not necessarily have "better" immune systems... Sometimes it's literally survivorship bias, where all of the vulnerable individuals they used to have already died in tragic ways.



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