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Cycles in Social Behaviour

Nature volume 231, page 463 (1971)Cite this article

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Young and Ziman, writing about Cycles in Social Behaviour1, suggest that “cycles of personal behaviour … are partly governed by endogenous biological mechanisms which need to be sustained by food and sleep at more or less regular intervals”.

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  1. Young, M., and Ziman, J., Nature, 229, 91 (1971).

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  2. Simpson, H. W., Halberg, F., and Lobban, Mary, Arctic Anthropology, 7, 144 (1970).

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  1. University Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, C4

    H. W. SIMPSON

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SIMPSON, H. Cycles in Social Behaviour. Nature 231, 463 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231463a0

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