Saturday, 28 September 2013

Marine Animals Keep Time With Multiple ClocksThe head and anterior segments of a marine worm, Platynereis Dumerili.

From fungi to farm animals to humans, organisms across a broad spectrum experience daily cycles controlled by a circadian clock. This internal clock tells us when to sleep or rest, and when it's time to wake up.
But it turns out that some animals—and perhaps even humans—keep time with more than one kind of clock, new studies say.

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