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From: paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: 25 hr day
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Date: 17 Jul 90 08:11:17 GMT
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>The free-wheeling sleep-wakefulness pattern [...] is indeed about 25
>hours.

>        The Earth may rotate at 24 hours between sunrises, but the
>time between moonrises is more like 25 hours -- and thus the time
>between low tides and the major tidal currents.


OK.  So what's that got to do with it?

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