The living clocks / Ritchie R. Ward ; drawings by Hollett Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 1971Edition: 1st editionDescription: xviii, 385, ix pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394416953
  • 9780394416953
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Living clocks.NLM classification:
  • QT 167
Contents:
The Rhythms of Life -- Leaves from Naturalists' Notebooks -- Transition: De Mairan to Arrhenius -- Darwin: Why Plants Sleep -- Harbingers of Modern Thought -- Garner and Allard: Short-Day Plants and Long-Day Plants -- A Clock-Watcher's Dictionary -- The Bunning Hypothesis -- Kramer: Solar Navigation by Birds -- Von Frisch and Renner: The Clock of the Bees -- DeCoursey: Treadmills and Flying Squirrels -- Sauer and Sauer: Celestial Navigation by Birds -- Harker: Cockroaches and Cancer -- Sweeney: The One-Celled Clock -- Brown: Mysterious Subtle Timers -- Hamner: Living Clocks at the South Pole -- Pittendrigh: Review and Perspective -- Ehret: Clocks at the Base of Life -- Lindberg: The Pocket Mousetronauts -- Stress and the Space Age -- Aschoff: Man's Own Clock -- Beyond Tomorrow: The Conquest of Disease.
Summary: This explanation of "biological clocks" includes discussions of "jet lag", how birds navigate, and why plants fruit and flower at certain times of the year.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QH527 .W37 1971 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000042487

Includes bibliographical references.

The Rhythms of Life -- Leaves from Naturalists' Notebooks -- Transition: De Mairan to Arrhenius -- Darwin: Why Plants Sleep -- Harbingers of Modern Thought -- Garner and Allard: Short-Day Plants and Long-Day Plants -- A Clock-Watcher's Dictionary -- The Bunning Hypothesis -- Kramer: Solar Navigation by Birds -- Von Frisch and Renner: The Clock of the Bees -- DeCoursey: Treadmills and Flying Squirrels -- Sauer and Sauer: Celestial Navigation by Birds -- Harker: Cockroaches and Cancer -- Sweeney: The One-Celled Clock -- Brown: Mysterious Subtle Timers -- Hamner: Living Clocks at the South Pole -- Pittendrigh: Review and Perspective -- Ehret: Clocks at the Base of Life -- Lindberg: The Pocket Mousetronauts -- Stress and the Space Age -- Aschoff: Man's Own Clock -- Beyond Tomorrow: The Conquest of Disease.

This explanation of "biological clocks" includes discussions of "jet lag", how birds navigate, and why plants fruit and flower at certain times of the year.

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Biological internal clocks in Living things

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