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Also Known As biological cycle • biorhythm

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Nature's biological rhythms explained
What happens to a person's biological clock in isolation?
How biological clocks influence daily behavior
Study the experiment about chronobiology, the science that studies biological rhythms
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Curt Paul Richter
American biologist