@article{oai:ir.soken.ac.jp:00003776, author = {尚之, 高畑 and KLEIN, Jan and TAKAHATA, Naoyuki and AYALA, Francisco Jose}, issue = {6}, journal = {Scientific American, Scientific American}, month = {}, note = {Analysis of the major histocompatibility complex locus, which governs the recognition of self by the immune system, reveals two profound surprises concerning the evolution of humans: the immune system is much older than the species that it protects, and the ancestral population must have been large, not small. There were many Adams and Eves.}, pages = {78--83+4}, title = {MHC polymorphism and human origins}, volume = {269}, year = {1993} }