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Moonstruck - How lunar cycles affect life (Paperback)
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Moonstruck - How lunar cycles affect life (Paperback)
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Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and
animals has featured in folklore and myths. Yet it has become
increasingly apparent that many organisms really are influenced
indirectly, and in some cases directly, by the lunar cycle.
Breeding behaviour among some marine animals has been demonstrated
to be controlled by internal circalunar biological clocks, to the
point where lunar-daily and lunar-monthly patterns of
Moon-generated tides are embedded in their genes. Yet,
intriguingly, Moon-related behaviours are also found in dry land
and fresh water species living far beyond the influence of any
tides. In Moonstruck, Ernest Naylor dismisses the myths concerning
the influence of the Moon, but shows through a range of fascinating
examples the remarkable real effects that we are now finding
through science. He suggests that since the advent of evolution on
Earth, which occurred shortly after the formation of the Moon,
animals evolved adaptations to the lunar cycle, and considers
whether, if Moon-clock genes occur in other animals, they also
might exist in us?
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