The Rhythms Of Life: the Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing 1861975716, 9781847653727, 1847653723
Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in huma
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English Pages 469 pages Year 2011;2004
Table of contents :
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. Appendix II Coping with jet-lagReferences
Index
Footnotes
Chapter 14
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