Posted by doreen on Monday, March 19, 2012 at 1:30pm.
It takes a lot of heat to raise the temperature of water. Water is perhaps 80% or so of the human body (I don't know the exact number) which means our temperature is easily maintained without high highs and low lows; i.e. the swing is not very large at all.
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