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To: techlvr who wrote (79267)	7/28/2008 1:54:51 AM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 196568

Your assumption might be right that the only effect is local heating. It might further be true that the only effect of heating is benign - an increase in intelligence - although if there were an advantage to a higher temperature in the brain, I would have expected us to have evolved that elevation. Some species of fish, including tunas - nominally cold-blooded - have sophisticated heat exchange systems to pump elevated temperatures to their retina and parts of their brains. Physiology is complicated. My point is that one shouldn't rely on simple assumptions or decide the matter a priori. Ashley