Circadian rhythms: Of owls, larks and alarm clocks in Nature News (download PDF while the article is still freely available), written by Melissa Lee Phillips is an excellent overview of the current state of knowledge about human circadian rhythms, underlying genetics, and circadian disorders.
I get several Google Alerts every day for media articles about clocks and most of them are too ‘meh’ for me to bother linking here, but this one is good and worth your time. J’approve.
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Great article. Will be good to send to friends and family, but also possibly cite in that well-known ‘opening paragraph’ describing the importance of circadian rhythms in general…