TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Ritchie R.
TI  - The living clocks
SN  - 0394416953
PY  - 1971///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Biological rhythms
KW  - Biological Clocks
KW  - fast
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Global
KW  - Biology biological clock
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Ward, Richie R
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -