Dimensions
128 x 198 x 18mm
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing . . .
Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals.
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 and 5am? And should patients be given medicines (and operations) at set times of the day, because the body reacts so differently in the morning, evening and night?
The answers lie in our biological clocks, the mechanisms which give order to all living things.
