Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.
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Our bodies adapted the same response to disease that Japanese honeybees use against Japaneae giant hornets: Biologically cook it to death.
The problem is that our bodies aren’t well designed for this, while the bees are, and instead we just cook ourselves instead.
What I’m saying is that colonies of bees are smarter than our biology. Yet another strike against creationism and intelligent design. If any god designed a perfect creature, it was a Japanese bee god. We’re just pale imitations.
Confirmed: Our white blood cells are just worse honeybees. Thanks, science side of tumblr!
