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"...according to a new paper in the August issue of the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience. In the paper, Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, argues that sleep evolved to optimize animals’ use of time, keeping them safe and hidden when the hunting, fishing or scavenging was scarce and perhaps risky. In that view, differences in sleep quality, up to and including periods of insomnia, need not be seen as problems but as adaptations to the demands of the environment."
Fascinating stuff. I always enjoy it when I read things that present new looks at the same old thing.
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While it may be true that sleep patterns change in order to adapt to changing environments, all animals(including man) have to have a requisite number of hours of rest in order to perform their daily activities effectively.
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