Sweat: A Human Superpower

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English - July 27, 2021 04:30 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
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Sweating is critical to helping humans avoid overheating, and it's different than how most animals cool down. Sarah Everts wanted to understand more about how humans came to sweat like we do, and wrote a book called The Joy of Sweat - which she talked about with Rhitu for this episode.

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