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Sharlinator t1_izbhltg wrote

Most living things don't have an immune system even today, because almost all living things are single-celled microbes. Of course, all living things have evolved in a constant arms race against parasites, so have all sorts of adaptations against getting infected, and infectious organisms of course are adapting all the time to overcome those defenses. But only complex multicellular organisms have "immune systems" with specialized cells and epigenetic memory and so on.

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