Ward, Ritchie R., <br/><br/>
The living clocks / 
Ritchie R. Ward ; drawings by Hollett Smith. 
 - 1st edition. 
 - xviii, 385, ix pages :  illustrations, maps, portraits ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0394416953 9780394416953 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> $8.95 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77111247  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>1300200  DNLM 013973707  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biological rhythms.<br/>Biological Clocks<br/>Biological rhythms.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Sociology Global Biology biological clock Philosophy Ward, Richie R 
<br/><br/><label>National Agricultural Library Call No.: </label>QH527.W3 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>QT 167  / W262L 1971