How Do Reptiles Experience Temperature?

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In the wild natural selection, right? But... But when we bring like gravid females into the lab and they lay eggs and those babies are born, we raise those babies under common laboratory conditions. We find that the offspring have the same level of cold tolerance as their parents did. And then you and I are endotherms, correct? Yes, we are. How difficult was it not to apply? Some of your knowledge that you gained through studying annoles to like yourself as an endotherm walking around, freezing in Montana. P.S. I got his timeline wrong and Shane was studying annoles at Harvard and did his postdoc on very cold mice in Montana.

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