The evolution of sleep is inevitable in a periodic world

There are two contrasting explanations of sleep: as a proximate, essential physiological function or as a behavioral, adaptive state of inactivity and these hypotheses remain widely debated. To investigate the adaptive significance of sleep, we develop an evolutionary argument formulated as a tracta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Field, J, Bonsall, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Public Library of Science 2018