Immune System Modelling and Simulation
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1.33 Time of S trengthening
When all possible controls are fi nally in place, the danger of self-
damage is at a low level, but that is forcedly true for the effi ciency
of immune defences also, and a low tide in defence effi ciency
must have followed (unfortunately, nothing is known about the
defences of the dinosaurs. If this was known, they could make
a nice example in either case: for being too controlled, and thus
having become extinct for insuffi cient defence, or for being not
suffi ciently controlled, and aggressive against themselves).
After the low tide, the phase of reconstructing effi ciency begins.
Infection and invasion remain the main selective forces; targeted
organisms, in order to survive, ...