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19 lip 2024 · In this article, we’ll take a look at sleep history, including biphasic rest and how it may be helpful in the modern world, full of various sleep disorders. When Was Sleeping Invented? For as long as humans have roamed the Earth, we’ve needed sleep.
Discovering the true evolutionary function of sleep, i.e. the reason sleep adds to the fitness of an organism, would explain ‘Why we sleep.’ I propose a subtle yet profound explanation to the question of why we and every animal species on earth sleep.
Explore the evolutionary reasons behind sleep and its importance for survival.
12 cze 2018 · Sleep is nearly ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom, yet little is known about how ecological factors or perturbations to the environment shape the duration and timing of sleep. In diverse animal taxa, poor sleep negatively impacts development, cognitive abilities and longevity.
The history of sleep affords important new perspectives not only on everyday life in earlier centuries but also on the underlying origins of contemporary sleep disorders, including middle-of-the-night insomnia.
9 paź 2023 · One of the best early descriptions of insomnia is by English clergyman Robert Burton in his book The Anatomy of Melancholy (1628). Burton knew insomnia was both a cause and a symptom of...
14 lip 2023 · It was in 162 AD that Galen identified the brain, rather than the heart, as the seat of consciousness. Over the next 1600 years, however, little progress was made in understanding the nature...
