That's a good question. I can imagine that there was a time before there was life on Earth, and then clearly there was a time X-hundred thousand years or a million years later when there were things that we would all recognize as biological.
A high count indicates the presence of inflammation in the body. Because white blood cells are calculated by the number of cells per volume of blood, test results can vary between labs. Different labs use different degrees of measurements for the white blood cell count.
What Does High White Blood Count Indicate: An increase in the count of white blood cells represents: 1  Some kind of inflammation in the body. 2  The body is suffering from some kind of trauma. 3  Presence of some allergy. 4  Any kind of damage to some tissue. 5  Some chronic infection in bone marrow.