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- November 19, 2009 at 9:33 am #12307MilvusParticipant
This a question: why did evolution select 37°C for us ?
Of course there are other temperatures for the living beings, but why 37°C for us ?
Milvus - November 19, 2009 at 10:11 am #95062JackBeanParticipant
Really interesting question 🙂 I think, it has something to do with our ancestor’s enviroment in Africa, because kind of logic to have similar temperature as your enviroment, otherwise you will either lose energy or you will be boiled 😉 Later, when human began to wear some sort of clothes, this was no more so important, so that temperature has stayed, althrough people live from the poles to equator
(althrough I think there are some differences between nations;) - November 19, 2009 at 4:16 pm #95088jwalinParticipant
when i go to a hillstation i have seen people wearing minimum clothes while i would be wrapped in what not’s
basically earlier the mankind must have started life along the equator in places like india, egypt, china and africa. and migrated to cooler places lot after the wheel and the availibility of clothes from animal skins
- November 28, 2009 at 6:09 am #95432dvthomasParticipant
It is a very good topic to have our brains pondering over for an answer. We have been learning about this right from the childhood but never gave a thought why it is so. It would be great to have some interesting thoughts on the topic in this thread. I think that the blood essential for our living contains a major portion of water and at this temperature the flow would be at a normal pace, that could be the reason.
- November 28, 2009 at 3:26 pm #95448jwalinParticipant
doesn’t set in too much
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