[ggghhhfff]

I believe what is meant here is that the alternative is to have a highly developed capacity for abstract thought that you then use to collaborate with your species to develop antibodies in a laboratory (humans are an example of this, although we don’t rely upon this mechanism)

[andromeduck]

Yeah but how is that going to arise out of nature? It's like asking why birds use vision + magnetism to navigate when they could just use GPS -- the MVP is too massive and inflexible.