2002.11.04

生物時鐘滴．答．滴

已逝的生物心理學家吉朋把時間稱作「原始情境」，那是每個時代、每種生物都感覺得到的事實。從清晨綻放的美麗花瓣，到秋雁的南飛、17年出土的蟬群，甚至低等黏菌每日的孢子產生週期等，時間就是一切。人體內的各種生物時鐘，對於秒、分、日、月以及年的時間都有所記錄；它們掌握了網球發球的瞬間時刻，也決定時差造成的傷

影像來源/ TOM DRAPER DESIGN; NASA/NSSDC (Earth and moon); CORBIS (baseball pitcher and horn player); TOMMY FLYNN Photonica (alarm clock); CORBIS (breakfast); JOHN TERRENCE TURNER Getty Images (highway); ROBERT DALY Stone (dinner table); ERICA McCONNELL Getty Images (brushing teeth); GEOFF MANASSE Aurora (child reading): YOSHINORI WATABE Photonica (night sky)

影像來源/ TOM DRAPER DESIGN; NASA/NSSDC (Earth and moon); CORBIS (baseball pitcher and horn player); TOMMY FLYNN Photonica (alarm clock); CORBIS (breakfast); JOHN TERRENCE TURNER Getty Images (highway); ROBERT DALY Stone (dinner table); ERICA McCONNELL Getty Images (brushing teeth); GEOFF MANASSE Aurora (child reading): YOSHINORI WATABE Photonica (night sky)

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