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Biological Rhythms

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Jürgen Aschoff

    1. Max-Planck Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Andechs, German Federal Republic

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Daily Rhythms

    1. Rhythms in Performance

      • Peter Colquhoun
      Pages 333-348

  2. Tidal, Lunar, and Annual Rhythms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 349-349
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    2. Tidal and Lunar Rhythms

      • Dietrich Neumann
      Pages 351-380

    3. Annual Rhythms: Perspective

      • Eberhard Gwinner
      Pages 381-389

    4. Circannual Systems

      • Eberhard Gwinner
      Pages 391-410

    5. Insect Photoperiodism

      • D. S. Saunders
      Pages 411-447

    6. Photoperiodism in Vertebrates

      • Klaus Hoffmann
      Pages 449-473

    7. Annual Rhythms in Man

      • Jürgen Aschoff
      Pages 475-487

  3. Rhythms not Directly Related to Environmental Cycles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 489-489
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    2. Short-Term Rhythms in Activity

      • Serge Daan, Jürgen Aschoff
      Pages 491-498

    3. Temporal Characteristics of Sleep

      • Wilse B. Webb, Michael G. Dube
      Pages 499-522

    4. Cyclic Function of the Mammalian Ovary

      • Constance S. Campbell, Fred W. Turek
      Pages 523-545

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 547-563
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About this book

Interest in biological rhythms has been traced back more than 2,500]ears to Archilochus, the Greek poet, who in one of his fragments suggests ",,(i,,(VWO'KE o'olos pv{}J.tos txv{}pW7rOVS ~XH" (recognize what rhythm governs man) (Aschoff, 1974). Reference can also be made to the French student of medicine J. J. Virey who, in his thesis of 1814, used for the first time the expression "horloge vivante" (living clock) to describe daily rhythms and to D. C. W. Hufeland (1779) who called the 24-hour period the unit of our natural chronology. However, it was not until the 1930s that real progress was made in the analysis of biological rhythms; and Erwin Bunning was encouraged to publish the first, and still not outdated, monograph in the field in 1958. Two years later, in the middle of exciting discoveries, we took a breather at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Biological Clocks. Its survey on rules considered valid at that time, and Pittendrigh's anticipating view on the temporal organization of living systems, made it a milestone on our way from a more formalistic description of biological rhythms to the understanding of their structural and physiological basis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Andechs, German Federal Republic

    Jürgen Aschoff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biological Rhythms

  • Editors: Jürgen Aschoff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6552-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-6554-3Published: 21 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6552-9Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 563

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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