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... not a portion of the body is involved in some activity ; that is , to interrupt its nervous communication with the brain . The surgical procedure for accomplishing this is a bit tricky . For an operating table we used a block of paraffin ...
... not a portion of the body is involved in some activity ; that is , to interrupt its nervous communication with the brain . The surgical procedure for accomplishing this is a bit tricky . For an operating table we used a block of paraffin ...
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great activity during the day and rest at night even though they were in total darkness ! The interesting fact is that flies which have been reared in total darkness for many genera- tions and have never seen light still showed a ...
great activity during the day and rest at night even though they were in total darkness ! The interesting fact is that flies which have been reared in total darkness for many genera- tions and have never seen light still showed a ...
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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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