¶ Temperature of the Human Body
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Temperature of the Human Body:
"For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere
Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it
At the slowest known rate of all substances.
As a consequence the temperature of the watery mantle
Covering three-quarters of Earth
Vary between such close limits
That the world average temperatures throughout the years
Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit
Over all the years in which temperatures
Have been recorded around the world.
Within these exquisitely stable electro, thermal, chemical limits
The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained
As the apparently ultimate focal formulation
Of the metabolic interchangings and intertransformings
Of the total evolution of bio-ecological intercomplementation."
¶ Citations
- RBF rewrite of BRAIN & MIND AT p. 113, July’72
