Why Have Some Animals Evolved to Regulate a High Body Temperature?

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• Publication year

  1977

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1977-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/283196
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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