Comments on: Golden Ratios in Body Temperatures

By: Charlotte Sometimes

Charlotte Sometimes — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 21:34:26 +0000

In reply to John Peters--You know, the farmer.. My thoughts EXACTLY.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:07:16 +0000

Could we try blood p.H too ?

By: Chris Lloyd

Chris Lloyd — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:51:25 +0000

In reply to Gary Meisner. Linear. The answer is because they are linear.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 05:52:11 +0000

Thankyou………….all of you……………..but especially Gary………………!
Something MORE to think about !
I was looking for a LIST OF ANIMAL BODY TEMPERATURES
(from frogs to mammals and birds
with a view to confirming my evolutionary bias that “we” ( and our ancestors )
evolved IN A WARMER THAN TODAY climate !
This DOES suggest that most “active lifeforms” function around about 37 degrees Celsius
which IS WARMER than today ( in fact it is cool and raining where I am at present ! )
Regards , Trevor.

By: John Peters--You know, the farmer.

John Peters--You know, the farmer. — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:21:29 +0000

In reply to Harvie brownsey-hughes. Why WOULDN'T you want to know that?

By: Nightvale Citizen

Nightvale Citizen — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:12:10 +0000

I’m voting for you, Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In My Home! Yay for the melting point of birds!

By: Harvie brownsey-hughes

Harvie brownsey-hughes — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:50:10 +0000

In reply to The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home. why would u want to know that

By: Harmen Mulder

Harmen Mulder — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:16:44 +0000

In reply to Jacob. yes because 1 kelvin equals to 1° centigrade

By: Gary Meisner

Gary Meisner — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:51:38 +0000

In reply to Robin Nixon. Interesting point about fats. Butter melts at 98.6° F, so it's probably related to the fact that it's an animal fat. Cocoa butter melts at 96.8° F. Chocolate melts at about 88° F. Olive oil melts at 21.2° F. It may be hard to make conclusions about evolution being the answer when the range isn't that narrow. The clustering of body temperatures around the golden ratio point between water freezing and boiling cannot necessarily be dismissed as coincidence. The golden ratio seems to be showing up in more and more places, from the quantum level to cosmology.

By: Robin Nixon

Robin Nixon — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:50:53 +0000

You know how chocolate melts when you touch it or eat it, as do other solid fats such as butter? Interestingly they all melt just a little below the body temperatures of warm blooded animals. It seems we evolved to be warm blooded at this very narrow temperature range to enable better processing of solid fats by melting them. We don’t get much more than a few degrees warmer than that because it isn’t necessary and would be wasteful on food resources to keep us hotter. Perhaps the ice ages led to us evolving this way in order to allow processing of fat to store as energy reserves. I think the golden ratio is simply a coincidence.