Short Answer
Like many other protective mechanisms, such as reacting to a stick as if it were a snake, sickness-related mechanisms err on the side of being overprotective. For example, the immune system response is sometimes greater than necessary for the challenge. Nesse (2005) refers to this as the _____ principle.
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