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Shining evolutionary light on human sleep and sleep disorders

Sleep is essential to cognitive function and health in humans, yet the ultimate reasons for sleep—i.e. ‘why’ sleep evolved—remain mysterious. We integrate findings from human sleep studies, the ethnographic record, and the ecology and evolution of mammalian sleep to better understand sleep along the...

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Published in:Evol Med Public Health
Main Authors: Nunn, Charles L., Samson, David R., Krystal, Andrew D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4972941/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27470330
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eow018
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