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The rhythms of life : the biological clocks that control the daily lives of every living thing /

Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kreitzman, Leon
Otros Autores: Foster, Russell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Profile, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter. Plants open and close their flowers at the same hour each day. Bees search out nectar-rich flowers day after day. There are cicadas that can breed for only two weeks every 17 years. And in humans: why are people who work anti-social shifts more illness prone and die younger? What is jet-lag and ca.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (469 pages)
ISBN:9781847653727
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