Scientists think our recent ancestors may have run hotter -- but why?
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150 years ago, average human body temperatures appear to have been higher than now. Scientists are still exploring exactly why. In the 1860s, the German physician Carl Wunderlich, was faced with a burning question. Was fever its own disease, or a symptom of an illness underneath? At a time when …
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