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Why is the human normal body temperature so much higher than the average ambient air temperature?
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The types of chemical reactions needed for human life are atypical of the environment, that is they do not occur naturally in addition, if the human bodies temperature is that same as the environment, it is not converting energy, (efficiently or inefficiently) and is dead. Life requires energy, energy requires heat. All living creatures produce heat of some sort, even if it's just a hundredth of a degree. At zero degrees, no chemical reactions can occur and there is no life.
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