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One doesn’t have to look at many living organisms before noticing that a lot of behavioral physiology is temporally organized in periodic patterns. In fact, if I had to decide what impresses me as the single most conspicuous feature of natural ecosystems, I would say that it is the daily and seasonal periodism and the consequent temporal organization of niche structure, food webs, and behavior.
Time sleeps quite naked, Anaitis, and, though it is a delicate matter to talk about, I notice he has met with a deplorable accident. So that time begets nothing anymore, Jürgen, the while he brings about old happenings over and over....
J. B. Cabell, Jurgen
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There is one instance in which data points do appear on the very steep segment of a Type 1 curve (Pittendrigh and Bruce, 1959, Figure 8). However, the raw data (Pittendrigh and Bruce, 1959, Figure 4) shows that these dots represent multiple recurrences of the monitored event during an interval of transient irregularities.
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Winfree, A.T. (2001). Circadian Rhythms in General. In: The Geometry of Biological Time. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 12. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3484-3_19
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