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The science of why you're a genius at 2pm and a zombie at 9am.
means The branch of biology that studies how living things organize their functions around time — daily, monthly, and seasonal biological cycles like the circadian clock.
from Built from Greek pieces: 'chronos' (time) plus 'bios' (life) plus '-logy' (study of). The field crystallized as a named discipline in the 20th century, once scientists confirmed that organisms carry internal timekeeping mechanisms rather than just reacting passively to the sun — the word simply stitched together 'time' and 'life study' to name that discovery.
- master clock
- Lives in your hypothalamus, syncs to sunlight daily
- off by default
- Runs about 24.2 hours without light resetting it
- jet lag proof
- Your liver and brain clocks reset at different speeds
- nobel worthy
- 2017 Nobel Prize went to the genes running this clock