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... activity . It is a judicious balance of these secretions that makes possible the deep voice and heavy beard of men and the beauty we so admire in women . It is the malfunction of the glands that produces giants , dwarfs , and various ...
... activity . It is a judicious balance of these secretions that makes possible the deep voice and heavy beard of men and the beauty we so admire in women . It is the malfunction of the glands that produces giants , dwarfs , and various ...
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... of sunset . When the light of the rising sun reached into the laboratory each morning , it stirred the lag- gard flies to activity . For the entire day each fly paced back and forth in his individual cage until at sunset the 75.
... of sunset . When the light of the rising sun reached into the laboratory each morning , it stirred the lag- gard flies to activity . For the entire day each fly paced back and forth in his individual cage until at sunset the 75.
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of activity that differences due to internal rhythms would be swamped . And so it turned out . Under constant light we had more or less constant activity , a constant baseline which we could observe before and after feeding . And then ...
of activity that differences due to internal rhythms would be swamped . And so it turned out . Under constant light we had more or less constant activity , a constant baseline which we could observe before and after feeding . And then ...
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