02694cam a2200349 4500 523245431 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781847653727 1847653723 B005LMSKAY Amazon 5c7d2abe-6d32-4d5b-b9c2-00245e39e2e3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 639717 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kreitzman, Leon. The Rhythms of Life [Libby] : The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing. Profile, 2011. Life Sciences. Biology. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4642kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Foster, Russell. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5C7D2ABE-6D32-4D5B-B9C2-00245E39E2E3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5C7D2ABE-6D32-4D5B-B9C2-00245E39E2E3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5C7D2ABE-6D32-4D5B-B9C2-00245E39E2E3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)