Episode notes
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?
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
McKechnie’s Blog Post on the paper
Beehive Temperature Regulation
Color Changing Thermal Biology
Poikilothermy and Huddling in Naked Mole Rats
Forbes: Why Did Women Evolve Periods?
The Evolution of Menstruation: A New Model for Genetic Assimilation
The Significance and Evolution of Menstruation
Grackhouse’s History of Stickers
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