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Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive New Releases Although organisms have served forOne of the Financial Times's Books of the Year in 2009 in the Science category Finalist for the 2009 Book of the Year Award, presented by Fore Word magazine. Just as daily events are timed by living creatures through circadian rhythms, so seasonal events are timed through an internal calendar that signals birds to return to nesting grounds, salmon to spawn, plants to flower, squirrels to hibernate, kelp to stop growing. In this fascinating book,