AMA | October 2024

8939.244 - 8960.598 Sean Carroll

Let's put it that way. I can say some things that I think are true as food for thought kinds of things, but you should ask an expert about this. Yes, there is waste heat generated in any animal, cold-blooded or warm-blooded. That is a very generic feature of thermodynamics. You should expect that to happen. But that's different than what we think of as being warm-blooded or cold-blooded.