What is the actual reason for it? The way i understand it, all other effects of stress, like increased heart rate, increase performance in fight or flight. How does sweat fit into that? don’t cooled muscles perform worse?
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Other primates, like chimps, do not sweat to cool themselves. They do sweat, primarily on the hands and feet. It is thought that they sweat in response to stress to improve their grip.
Humans are believed to sweat in response to stress as a hold-over from the sweat mechanism in other primates.
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