Abstract
The temperature regulation in homothermic animals is an example of a negative feedback system. It shows sudden changes of parameter values, and therefore suggests the use of catastrophe theory for its description. This paper reports on work done on the human temperature regulation mechanism to show that the five-dimensional dual butter-fly catastrophe model is sufficient for its description. Nearly all experiments reported in the literature overlook the dynamic multiparametric nature of the process. Use of catastrophe theory, on the other hand, shows that one cannot find a model with fewer than five parameters for such a system. From work by Benzinger and Kitzinger, the exact shape of part of the corresponding bifurcation set is determined.
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