Evolutionary Immunology is the study of the evolution of the ability of immune system over the ages to recognize foreign antigenic materials. Main areas of Evolutionary Immunology include: (1) study of phylogenetic relationships between nonspecific (hereditary) and specific (acquired, or adaptive) immunity; (2) study of the phenomena of graft rejection in a phylogenetic series; (3) study of occurrence and historical development of T- and B-systems of immunity; (4) study of phylogenesis of different cell types of the immunity system; and (5) study of historical development of the ability to specifically recognize foreign antigenic materials. Faculty and students in the Evolutionary Immunology examine how both the human experience and our evolutionary past affect immune system function, health and disease, and functional divergence and diversification of primate immune systems.

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