What do heat and temperature have to do with biology? (It turns out, a lot!) We know what periods are, but why do humans have them? And stickers are delightful but how did they come about?
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We also learn about: what is heat? endotherms ectotherms homeotherms heterotherms and poikilotherms, being warm blooded evolved twice, heat generating plants, naked mole rats are weird, the podcast's stable of strange animals grows, kleptothermy, everyone huddles, which animals have periods? mansplaining periods, elphant shrews, convergent evolution of periods, spontaneous decidualization, "pregnancy is parasitic", women's reproductive research is underfunded, georgian beauty standards, stamp based tangents, bumper stickers, and our favorite stickers.
Sources:
Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" Book
Endotherms and Ectotherms
Thermoregulation
Oryx Heterothermy
Quelea High Body Temperature
McKechnie's Blog Post on the paper
The evolution of Endothermy
Beehive Temperature Regulation
Desert Ant Thermotolerance
Thermogenesis in Plants
Color Changing Thermal Biology
Sloth Poikilothermy
More Sloth Poikilothermy
Poikilothermy and Huddling in Naked Mole Rats
Kleptothermy
Forbes: Why Did Women Evolve Periods?
Decidualization
The Evolution of Menstruation: A New Model for Genetic Assimilation
The Significance and Evolution of Menstruation
Grackhouse's History of Stickers
The History of Sticker Printing
The History of Postage Stamps
Avery Dennison History
Smithers: The Value of the Sticker Market
