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Tsimane children look out over the Maniqui River, in the Bolivian Amazon.
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Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
‘Normal’ body temperature has declined in urban, industrialized settings like the US and UK. Anthropologists find the trend extends to Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon – but why?