What's Striking About Circadian Rhythms?

Over 15% of the human encoding genome is regulated by the circadian rhythm. We spend 90% of our time indoors 200 years ago, 90% of the population was working in agrarian capacity outdoors all day long. Because of that strange lighting environment, instead of having this waxing and waning of activity controlled by circadian clocks, then we have what's called asynchronization where there's not really a robust message to do daytime or nighttime activities.

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