I always assumed the way sweat cooled us was how the water on the outside of our skin cools off and in turn cools the skin down however I don’t get why the air that cools the sweat cant cool our bodies especially if our skin can heat that sweat just as fast or faster than the air can cool it.
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How do you feel coming out of the shower? A bit chilly? The water evaporates, chilling you down.
The fact that you can sweat with your entire skin makes you cool. A dog ie. can only sweat through is tongue, this is why any human can easily outpace more or less any other animal. A horse is quicker than you, but you can keep going for days, the horse can not. It will get overheated and collapse and then you are still able to throw a spear into it.
This is probably a lot of the reason that humans, as an animal, have been able to succeed as well as we have.
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