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From: Professor Vonroach
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:11
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:11
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:01:28 GMT, max <betatron@earthlink.net> wrote: >In article <slrn9pp7hi.of8.packer@clark.net>, packer@clark.net (Charles >Packer) wrote: > >> Circadian rhythms make sense biologically only in an >> environment where they can be _entrained_, that is, >> synchronized, by the cycle in the environment they are >> tracking. Why evolution gave rise to a free-running cycle >> that's longer rather than shorter than the 24-hour day is >> probably a matter for physiologists rather than astronomers. > >I'd guess they're flexible because it's adaptive -- we'd fare a lot >better if we could stretch our waking ours in times of need. "Time out >Mr. Tiger, I have to go to slee----". > >.max I choose to opine that if a given circadian rhythm was ill-suited to its function that it would have been `oversurvived' by some dude with the right stuff a long time ago if I read Chuck Darwin correctly.
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