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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kreitzman, Leon
Otros Autores: Foster, Russell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Profile, 2011.
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505 0 |a Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The day within and the day without; 2 Telling time; 3 Oscillators, clocks and hourglasses; 4 The challenge of daily change; 5 The search for the clock; 6 Light on the clock; 7 The molecular clock: protein 'tick' and RNA 'tock'; 8 A few species and many clocks; 9 The changing seasons; 10 Clockwork evolution; 11 Sleep and performance; 12 SAD shifts; 13 Time to take your medicine; 14 Future times: Uchronia or Dyschronia; Glossary of common terms; Appendix I Rhythms in humans. 
505 8 |a Appendix II Coping with jet-lagReferences; Index; Footnotes; Chapter 14; * 
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