PSY260H1 Lecture : Timing
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It is absolutely essential for organisms to time what they do; their physiology, their chemistry, their behaviour, etc, with their environment. All organisms need to be able to predict these sorts of things: when things will happen in your environment, what we want out of the world, when we can get it. When we can get these things changes by season, by day, and by moment. We are bound by our ability to time things. If you have to run after game to eat, for example, by being able to predict the presence of a predator/pray and being able to time and outrun them, we gain safety, shelter, food, etc. Some of these things need to be built into the organism so that the timing is correct. Other organisms need to time their own cycles in order to work with the cycles of other animals.
