Re-activation of the human thermoregulating functions

I too am not sure the point you are making. Humans evolved out of hot a climate: our thermo-regulation suite is set up to loose heat insofar as we sweat, walk up right (presenting less of a profile to high sun) and our head hair blocks most of that (those of us who still have it). Even our nose shows adaption for heat regulation.Neanderthals on the other hand showed evidence of cold adaption: short compact bodies, short limbs, big massive conks and so on. They may have had sub dermal lipid layers similar to modern day Inuit people. Even these groups needed to wear clothing to protect themselves from the cold.Humans are not cold loving creatures (as shown by the 'untidy' heat sigs) only in the sense that they are not adapted for cold.Were it not for our ability to manipulate the environment we would be restricted (in all likleyhood) to tropical and sub tropical bands.

In a perfect world this would be a good thing (although his designs make me think on bad trips to be honest). As CK points out however, this is unlikely as some one has to find the money to knock up a place like Hunderwasser's designs.So, can I assume that your position is that if people were better at thermo-regulation we could build more aesthetically pleasing (to you) domiciles?This is not too outrageous, when it gets cold I put on a jumper rather than turn up the thermostat because it cost me money not to do so.I suppose I could use my mamalian trick of burning food to boost my temperature or running on the spot but this is a short term heat increase and as it will no doubt make me sweat I will suffer a net loss in heat when the activity is over.As I said above, we are adapted to loose heat, not retain it.