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What's the evolutionary advantage of

Name: Anonymous 2008-10-15 12:25

sleep?
I can understand big predators requiring sleep to conserve energy.
But why do humans need sleep? A group of humans who needed no or much less sleep could have easily outcompeted us.

Name: Anonymous 2008-10-21 13:36

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Sleep isn't an evolutionary matter, it's a biochemical matter.
Incoherent, F--.

I can't believe you wrote a post of that length while still completely failing to understand a single thing about evolution.

Cetaceans (animals in the order Cetacea like whales and dolphins) still have lungs. (...) (bullshit about larynx)
I take it you don't have the slightest clue what a fitness landscape is, and why ``you can't get there from here'' is relevant here?

Another human example concerns vitamin C.
It's not a defect if it doesn't impact the organisms ability to breed. Human inability to produce vitamin C isn't an issue because we get it in our diet, like you said. The simple fact that animals do get eaten in their sleep shows that the analogy just doesn't apply in the case of sleep.

The point is that even if the trait severely damages survivability, that doesn't mean Evolution will necessarily take care of it.
You haven't demonstrated that at all. You are, in fact, ignorant and full of shit.

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