The organism runs according to a genetically determined "clock" located in certain cells in a specific area of the brain
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The organism runs according to a genetically determined "clock" located in certain cells in a specific area of the brain 1 0 2and
Nervous impulses from the retina only have the small privilege of "setting the clock" 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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