我々はなぜ発熱するか

"A few microbes are more sensitive to heat than our own bodies are. By raising our body
temperature, we in effect try to bake the germs to death before we get baked ourselves." (Jared DIAMOND, Guns, germs and steel)
彼はこの書物ではとても生真面目であまり冗談を言わないのだが、たまに言うと面白い。