How Many Things by Season Season’d Are

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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-08T14:08:21Z
dc.date.available2012-02-08T14:08:21Z
dc.date.issued2009-10
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.sajs.co.za/en_ZA
dc.description.abstractPeople born between June and September in the southern hemisphere are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than those born in other months; a quarter of the entire genome of Arabidopsis thaliana (a cress plant) is devoted to sensing and responding to environmental changes; and human basal metabolic rate drops to 40% of normal values during starvation. These are some of the many remarkable facts that I learned while reading this book, which successfully unites wideranging discussions of plant phenology, animal behaviour and evolutionary physiology; the seasonality of human disorders as diverse as malaria and seasonal affective disorder; and the timing of crime and of human reproductive rhythms—all in the context of climate change. This is the second book by the neurobiologist/ science writer team that produced a wellreceived description of circadian rhythms, Rhythms of Life, in 2004. Seasons of Life takes a wider perspective, addressing organisms’ anticipation of and responses to the environmental changes that follow seasonal rather than daily rhythms.Many biologists will share the authors’ concluding wish for a better understanding of biological rhythms, in the hope that this might improve our chances of slowing down the accelerating extinction rate resulting from climate change.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublishers' versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationJackson, S. 2009. How Many Things by Season Season’d Are. South African Journal of Science, 105, 332-333.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0038-2353 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1996-7489 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19654
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS OpenJournalsen_ZA
dc.rights.holderThe author holds the copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectSeasons of Life: The biological rhythms that living things need to thrive and survive.en_ZA
dc.subjectRussell G. Fosteren_ZA
dc.subjectLeonard Kreitzmanen_ZA
dc.subjectBook reviewen_ZA
dc.subjectSchizophreniaen_ZA
dc.subjectSeasonal affective disorderen_ZA
dc.subjectSeasonal rhythmsen_ZA
dc.titleHow Many Things by Season Season’d Areen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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