Human body temperature has declined steadily
over the past 160 years
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science, Jan. 10, 2020
[www.sciencemag.org]

Body Temperatures Today are Lower Than
They Were Two Centuries Ago. A new study
argues that our bodies have cooled off
appreciably since the 1800s.
By Gemma Tarlach, Discover, January 9, 2020
[www.discovermagazine.com]

The open access paper is:

Protsiv, M., Ley, C., Lankester, J., Hastie, T. and
Parsonnet, J., 2020. Decreasing human body
temperature in the United States since the
Industrial Revolution. eLife, 9, p.e49555.
[elifesciences.org]

Yorus,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)