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SUBMITTER: Gurven M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608783 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20201028 44
Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined over the past two centuries in the United States, coinciding with reductions in infection and increasing life expectancy. The generality of and reasons behind this phenomenon have not yet been well studied. Here, we show that Bolivian forager-farmers (<i>n</i> = 17,958 observations of 5481 adults age 15+ years) inhabiting a pathogen-rich environment exhibited higher BT when first examined in the earl ...[more]