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THE hypothesis of a temperature-dependent internal chemical clock as a basis for man's estimation of time intervals of short duration was made more than 30 years ago.
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BELL, C. Control of Time Estimation by a Chemical Clock. Nature 210, 1189–1190 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101189a0
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