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THERE has for many years past been a tendency to diminish or ignore the distinction between the cold-blooded and the warm-blooded types of animal life. Yet the difference is one that is not only real, but in some respects radical. In very few, however, of nature's classes is there found a line of sharp demarcation, and the chief purpose of this paper is to point out that, though the distinction between the two types is real, there lies between these two types a line of steady gradation.
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The Temperatures of Reptiles, Monotremes and Marsupials1. Nature 57, 67–69 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057067a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057067a0