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PLANTS and animals alike live by regular cycles. Following their highly acclaimed Rhythms of Life, which examined circadian (daily) clocks, and now explore how hibernation, migration, flowering and reproduction march to year-long beats 鈥� the circannual clocks.

This tour de force addresses everything from feedback regulation of clock proteins to how migrating animals who navigate by the sun compensate for its apparent daily motion. The chapter on seasonal affective disorder helps explain why many of us plan our own winter trips.

Elegant prose and clear diagrams make even the most complex physiology comprehensible. A must-read for anyone who has ever looked up at a migrating skein of geese and wondered 鈥渉ow do they know鈥�?鈥�.