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Excessive masculinity is seen by some as adaptive behavior in situations where Chicano men feel racial oppression and discrimination.
APOBEC1, for example, is involved in the C→U editing of apolipoprotein B mRNA (therein christening the family), while another family member, the activation-induced deaminase, has a vital role in adaptive immunity in that it assists in the diversification of antibodies.
This change may have been mediated by other cytokines (IL-1β, IL-8) whose levels have been shown to increase with kinetics that parallel this rise in TTP [ 40 46 47 ] . Alternatively, the late rise in cytoplasmic TTP may be due to release from the bone marrow of leukocytes that have high levels of TTP or an adaptive response to endotoxemia.
I felt Wilson was sometimes too complacent in seeing human foibles (such as irrational spiritual beliefs) as evolutionarily adaptive.
Another hallmark of adaptive immunity is memory, which enables the body to remember specific adaptive responses in response to specific antigens.