The Living Clock
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The Living Clock
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Author : John D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-14
The Living Clock written by John D. Palmer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-14 with Science categories.
From one-celled paramecium to giant blue whales, we all have internal clocks that regulate the rhythms we live by. In The Living Clock, John Palmer, one of the world's leading authorities on these rhythms, takes us on a tour of this broad and multifaceted subject, examining everything from glowing fruit flies to the best cures for jet lag. Palmer has a wonderful sense of humor and an eye for the startling fact. We learn that fiddler crabs--in a lab where there are no time nor tide cues--remain active when low tide would occur and motionless during high tide, the same pattern they follow in their natural habitat. (In fact, you can remove a crab's leg and the leg will keep a tidal rhythm as long as it's kept alive.) Moreover, humans are subject to more than one hundred biological rhythms. Mental acuity peaks in the afternoon, for instance, and our blood pressure peaks at seven in the morning (when most heart attacks occur). The time of day you take medication can affect how well it works. And Palmer shows that when our clocks are thrown off kilter, trouble follows, especially for rotating shift workers--the Bhopal spill, the Chernobyl reactor explosion, and the Three Mile Island accident all happened when new crews began early-hour shifts. No one has discovered exactly how our internal clocks work--Palmer says a Nobel Prize awaits that lucky scientist--but they are no less fascinating for their inexplicable nature. Frequently amusing and always eye-opening, The Living Clock is a treat for everyone curious about the nature of life as well as anyone planning a long jet flight.
The Living Clocks
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Author : Ritchie R. Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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The Living Clock
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Author : John D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Living Clock written by John D. Palmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Biological rhythms categories.
An introduction to a basic property of life, one mostly unknown to science and the public until the latter half of the last century: humans, plants, and animals have within their bodies a kind of clock that synchronizes much of what they do with the time of day, the seasons or the tides.
The Living Clock
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Author : William M. Rivera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-02-08
The Living Clock written by William M. Rivera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-08 with American poetry categories.
The Rhythms Of Life
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Author : Leon Kreitzman
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2011-09-30
The Rhythms Of Life written by Leon Kreitzman and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Science categories.
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 can anything help? Why do teenagers refuse to get up in the morning, and are the rest of us really 'larks' or 'owls'? Why are most people born (and die) between 3am-5am? And should patients be given medicines (and operations) at set times of day, because the body reacts so differently in the morning, evening and at night? The answers lie in our biological clocks the mechanisms which give order to all living things. They impose a structure that enables us to change our behaviour in relation to the time of day, month or year. They are reset at sunrise and sunset each day to link astronomical time with an organism's internal time.
The Secret Clocks
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Author : Seymour Simon
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08-15
The Secret Clocks written by Seymour Simon and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Examines why some plants blossom only in daylight, how birds know when and where to migrate, and other intriguing aspects of human and animal biological clocks.
Time In The Living World
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Author : M. K. Chandrashekaran
language : en
Publisher: Universities Press
Release Date : 2005
Time In The Living World written by M. K. Chandrashekaran and has been published by Universities Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
The Living Clocks
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Author : Anita Jagota
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Living Clocks written by Anita Jagota and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biological rhythms categories.
The Clock Of Living Nature
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Author : A. Emme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900*
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The Restless Clock
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Author : Jessica Riskin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-03-10
The Restless Clock written by Jessica Riskin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Philosophy categories.
A core principle of modern science holds that a scientific explanation must not attribute will or agency to natural phenomena.The Restless Clock examines the origins and history of this, in particular as it applies to the science of living things. This is also the story of a tradition of radicals—dissenters who embraced the opposite view, that agency is an essential and ineradicable part of nature. Beginning with the church and courtly automata of early modern Europe, Jessica Riskin guides us through our thinking about the extent to which animals might be understood as mere machines. We encounter fantastic robots and cyborgs as well as a cast of scientific and philosophical luminaries, including Descartes and Leibnitz, Lamarck and Darwin, whose ideas gain new relevance in Riskin's hands. The book ends with a riveting discussion of how the dialectic continues in genetics, epigenetics, and evolutionary biology, where work continues to naturalize different forms of agency.The Restless Clock reveals the deeply buried roots of current debates in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology.