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Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human

by Hans Rocha Ijzerman Author

Perfect book of insight for that person that runs a little too hot, a bit too cool, this book is a historical and scientific look into the evolution of body temperature regulation. After oxygenation (breathing), sanguine circulation and body temperature regulation are some of the next core feature that comes to being the animals that we are. Some of the evolutionary factors that came with being animals that can thermoregulate the way we do contributed to things like losing fur and being big-brained. But what about the weird and the nitty gritty -- such as considering that a jury in a cold room that's having to expend more energy to thermoregulate is more likely to convict? Or that a cold days are a realtor's wet dream (or sunny day, however you'll take the metaphor). The author, professor of social psychology, has written this with a goal of helping us understand how our temperatures and regulation of it affects our social lives and outcomes.