: How human can survive temperature higher than 37°C ? I don’t understand how the body can cool down if the external temperature is higher than the internal one.

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: How human can survive temperature higher than 37°C ? I don’t understand how the body can cool down if the external temperature is higher than the internal one.

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We sweat. The temperature limit for how far you can cool something with evaporation is the dew point. If the temperature was equal to body temperature, and the relative humidity 100%, then we would be unable to cool ourselves at all. We need it a bit lower than that to survive.