time , sequential arrangement of all events: Biological Time

In the life sciences, evidence has been found that many living organisms incorporate biological clocks that govern the rhythms of their behavior (see rhythm, biological). Animals and even plants often exhibit a circadian (approximately daily) cycle in, for instance, temperature and metabolic rate that may have a genetic basis. Efforts to localize time sense in specialized areas within the brain have been largely unsuccessful. In humans, the time sense may be connected to certain electrical rhythms in the brain, the most prominent of which is known as the alpha rhythm at about ten cycles per second.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Biological Time
• Time Reversal Invariance
• Relativistic Time
• Philosophy and Science of Time
• Psychology of Time
• Physical Time and Its Measurement
• Bibliography

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