Sleepy - Preadaptation!

[Dag Stenberg]

Timothy J Triche, Jr. (tjt3 at cornell.edu) wrote:
} I think I saw a recent overview of physiological functions for sleep in
} _Physiology of Behavior_ 4th ed. by Carlson.  It may be covered elsewhere.
} I just looked in Principles of Neural Science 3rd ed and Chapter 51 deals
} entirely with sleep and dreaming.  There is a passage in there regarding
} differences among animals for time spent in REM sleep, for example...

Jim Horne's "Why We Sleep", Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-261682X /
ISBN 0-19-261892-X is still not outdated (1988). Recommend.

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