Sleepy - Preadaptation!

[Dag Stenberg]

Justin Baker (ST004131 at brownvm.brown.edu) wrote:

} And why does sleep seem necessary even when it heals no physiological 
} function?

No physiological function outside the brain, you mean.

Brain research has new tools, and it will eventually be revealed what
sleep does for the brain to make it so indispensable.

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