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Biological Rhythms

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  1. Jürgen Aschoff

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

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
    PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. A Survey on Biological Rhythms

      • Jürgen Aschoff
      Pages 3-10

    3. Methodology

      • James Thomas Enright
      Pages 11-19

    4. Data Analysis

      • James Thomas Enright
      Pages 21-39

    5. Mathematical Models

      • Theodosios Pavlidis
      Pages 41-54

  3. Daily Rhythms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Circadian Systems: General Perspective

      • Colin S. Pittendrigh
      Pages 57-80

    3. Freerunning and Entrained Circadian Rhythms

      • Jürgen Aschoff
      Pages 81-93

    4. Circadian Systems: Entrainment

      • Colin S. Pittendrigh
      Pages 95-124

    5. Behavioral Rhythms in Invertebrates

      • John Brady
      Pages 125-144

    8. Vertebrate Behavioral Rhythms

      • Benjamin Rusak
      Pages 183-213

    9. Internal Temporal Order

      • Martin C. Moore-Ede, Frank M. Sulzman
      Pages 215-241

    11. Ontogeny of Circadian Rhythms

      • Fred C. Davis
      Pages 257-274

    12. Adaptive Daily Strategies in Behavior

      • Serge Daan
      Pages 275-298

    13. Clock-Controlled Orientation in Space

      • Hans G. Wallraff
      Pages 299-309

    14. The Circadian System of Man

      • Jürgen Aschoff, Rütger Wever
      Pages 311-331
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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.
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Editors and Affiliations

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

    Jürgen Aschoff

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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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