Rhythms of Life

The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

Russel Foster, Leon Kreitzman

320 pages, parution le 31/05/2005

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Résumé

'Full of wonders ... this extraordinary book makes it possible to gain some understanding of what is at stake.'
Sunday Telegraph

A scholarly, fascinating book about circadian rhythms that's bang on time ... [its] scope as a whole is extraordinary
New Scientist

Why do people have more heart attacks in the early morning? How do bees tell the time? Or reindeer know when to migrate? Why can't teenagers get out of bed in the morning? And how can we avoid jetlag? The answer lies in biological clocks.

We live in a 24/7 world dictated by the atomic clock. "Vet our bodies, honed by over three billion years of evolution, beat to an older celestial rhythm. Drawing on the latest research in many species of plants, animals, bacteria and algae, this book describes the world of circadian rhythms and makes this area of biological medicine accessible to all. It explains how our daily patterns of sleeping and waking, eating and drinking depend not just on how tired we feel, or how hungry or thirsty we are, but what our biological clocks are telling us. Rhythms of Life provides the essential science that enables us to understand the biological basis of our behaviour.

'[The book] takes readers on a captivating journey ... it- is time that the profound knowledge of clock research reaches everyone in society; this book does an excellent job in this campaign'
Nature

Sommaire

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The day within and the day without
Telling time
Oscillators, clocks and hourglasses
The challenge of daily change
The search for the clock
Light on the clock
The molecular clock: protein 'tick' and RNA 'lock'
A few species and many clocks
The changing seasons
Clockwork evolution
Sleep and performance
SAD shifts
Time to take your medicine
Future times: Uchronia or Dyschronia
Glossary of common terms
Appendix I: Rhythms in humans
Appendix II: Coping with jet-lag
References
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Profile Books
Auteur(s)	Russel Foster, Leon Kreitzman
Parution	31/05/2005
Nb. de pages	320
Format	13 x 19,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	238g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781861975713
ISBN13	978-1-86197-571-3