- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observers and time
- 3 Subjective images of time
- 4 Cultural images of time
- 5 Literary images of time
- 6 Objective images of time
- 7 Mathematical images of time
- 8 Illusionary images of time
- 9 Causal images of time
- 10 Physics and time
- 11 Biological time
- 12 The dimensions of time
- 13 The architecture of time
- 14 Absolute time
- 15 The reparametrization of time
- 16 Origins of relativity
- 17 Special relativity
- 18 Generalized transformations
- 19 General relativistic time
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Imaginary time
- 22 Irreversible time
- 23 Discrete time
- 24 Time and quanta
- 25 Temporal correlations
- 26 Time reversal
- 27 Quantized spacetime
- 28 Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Biological time
Biological time
- Chapter:
- (p.109) 11 Biological time
- Source:
- Images of Time
- Author(s):
George Jaroszkiewicz
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the relationship of life processes to various time scales associated with the solar model. This model is based on our solar system and is one for which there is now increasing evidence for as occurring commonly throughout the universe. Starting with a comparison of evolutionary time scales with the origin of the solar system, the chapter goes on to discuss the solar model (our planetary system), how the life spans of organisms is observed to depend on their metabolic rates and other parameters, chronobiology (the study of life process cycles as influenced by terrestrial factors such as tides and the seasons), and biological time travel.
Keywords: life, evolution, solar model, lifetimes, metabolic rate, chronobiology, tides, seasons, biological time travel
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observers and time
- 3 Subjective images of time
- 4 Cultural images of time
- 5 Literary images of time
- 6 Objective images of time
- 7 Mathematical images of time
- 8 Illusionary images of time
- 9 Causal images of time
- 10 Physics and time
- 11 Biological time
- 12 The dimensions of time
- 13 The architecture of time
- 14 Absolute time
- 15 The reparametrization of time
- 16 Origins of relativity
- 17 Special relativity
- 18 Generalized transformations
- 19 General relativistic time
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Imaginary time
- 22 Irreversible time
- 23 Discrete time
- 24 Time and quanta
- 25 Temporal correlations
- 26 Time reversal
- 27 Quantized spacetime
- 28 Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
