Sentences with phrase «of endothermy»

For example, from the family cat whose «temperature is about the same whether she is asleep in the shade or running about in the sun» we learn about the principle of endothermy («heat from within») that mammals use to keep their body temperatures more or less constant.

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«This strategy of deriving energy from the sun is described as ectothermy (outside heat) and gives reptiles the advantage of having a warm body without the high good costs associated with endothermy,» says McGowan.

Although he notes that the argument over dinosaur physiology involves a number of factors — including histology and adaptations for rapid movement — Hutchinson says that Köhler's study provides additional evidence for dinosaur endothermy.

«The growing weight of evidence has been winning over scientists, myself included, to the view that endothermy evolved quite early in dinosaurs and was inherited by birds,» he says