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10107838 No.10107838 [Reply] [Original]

Why hasn't evolution favored the ability to pass on immunity to illness to your offspring?

For example, a person might get chickenpox, and then never get it again, but then having a child later in life -- the child wont be immune to chickenpox, despite the "chickenpox" itself not having changed.

Seems like a glaring hole in evolution. This seems to be absent from all walks of life, not just in humans. Disease immunity is something that must be gained individually and uniquely, but not passed genetically.

I mean, it's almost like disease is literally just in your head. Just as everything else in your head, it isn't passed on genetically. It's functionally worthless knowledge.

Pharma fags on suicide watch.

>> No.10107841

>what is milk
dumb prog foster

>> No.10107853
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10107853

>>10107841
>nommys breadt milk make me stong >:)
what are vaccines, nigger.

>> No.10107868

>>10107838
>Population gets disease
>Part of the population has a mutation with gives them immunity to it
>That part of the population lives and everyone else dies
>The population is now mostly genetically immune

Also it's not that big a deal, breast milk helps you when your immune system is still developing and after that you're kinda on your own. Disease is only more of an issue now because people are living to fairly old ages which isn't """natural"""

>> No.10107881

>>10107853
milk has natural vaccines

>> No.10107906

>>10107881
I wonder what the statistics are on breastfeeding and autism.

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>>10107838
This just in! I'm gonna give you a free biology lesson! Immunity is (very basically) comprised of two components cells and antibodies. They are your own. If they aren't and are for example someone else's your own immune system targets them (mainly the cellular part). So nature has created the placental barier so the baby isn't destroyed by his mother's own immune system since the cells think the baby is an invader. So that's the reason you can't inherent it from yo momma. You can however get some antibodies (IgG) during that period. That's why the baby is protected from some deseases when it's born. The other type of antibody you can get is IgA from breast milk. And now you say "hurr durr can it be genetically inherited?" well no. The two zygotes that merged in order to form an embryo just don't contain that information in the first place. Do you understand now dipshit? Immunity isn't some magical shit that just happens, it's pretty fucking complicated.

>> No.10107915

>>10107906
Fairly certain almost all autists have been breastfed when they were babies. You might be on to something