Rhythms of Life: The biological clocks that control the daily lives of every living thing by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman, Profile, £20, ISBN 1861972350
LATE again? Bet it’s for work, and not for the spring migration. It’s not your fault. Even the noisiest alarm clocks and tightest timetables cannot tame the natural daily rhythms human bodies obey. In Rhythms of Life, we get a glimpse of the curious workings of those inner timekeepers. We are reliably informed by biology professor Russell Foster of Imperial College London that the rectal temperature of second-year physiology students fluctuates rhythmically, with a low point around 4 to 6 am and a high point 12 to…
