Shouldn’t it be the most comfortable temperature? 🤔

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s the feature that let us become the dominant predator. We could track large game that is wounded until the collapsed from heat exhaustion. Yay sweaty humans!

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      1 year ago

      So are you saying that people who sweat more in hot environments are better suited for long distance hunting? Because I’m a gross, sweaty mofo and I would like to feel better about it

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        1 year ago

        This podcast will kill you has an episode on sweat and how it’s a superpower.

        My meds make me sweat a lot so I must be super powered.

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      It also seems like this is part of why there were so many powerhouses around the mediterranean, the climate there is just right that you can work a lot without melting, and warm enough that it’s comfortable to walk basically naked.

      And it makes sense when you consider that humans evolved for a comparatively sedate lifestyle (even hunting isn’t going to involve sprinting that much) in subsaharan africa.