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From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: DST Harmful?
Message-ID: <5627@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Apr 91 04:03:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.180823.1462@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1991Apr7.180823.1462@cs.rochester.edu>
brown@cs.rochester.edu writes:

>Jetlag and shift work -induced disorientation are noticeable factors
>in human performance. I'm wondering if any work has been done on the
>effects of the twice-yearly switch between standard and
>daylight-savings times on wildlife.

Very funny.  Another question is whether it is OK for us neo-humans to
inhabit the temperate zones.  If our ancestors migrated from the
tropics a mere few dozen millenia ago, perhaps the changes in season
length is bad for us.  It's not as though summer and winter are
"natural", after all.