Bergmann's Rule

2012-11-23

Have you ever noticed how fat people tend to feel the cold less than skinny people? Have you also noticed how it gets colder as your latitude increases? Are you ready for a long sentence with too many uses of the word 'idea'? One of the most interesting ideas about new ideas is that there is no such thing as a new idea, the idea being that a new idea is just two old ideas connected in a new way. You get the idea? In 1847, the…