The Purpose of Sleeping

Published Jun 23, 2012 by ideonexus

If sleeping and dreaming do not perform vital biological functions, then they must represent nature's most stupid blunder and most colossal waste of time.

John Price, Anthony Stevens, Evolutionary psychiatry (2000)

Notes

There must be a purpose, or evolution really blundered.

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References

Evolutionary psychiatry Book

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Keywords

vital biological functions, colossal waste, blunder, purpose, evolution, nature, time