"If it's alive, it sleeps": Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber
> Over the past few years, studies in worms, jellyfish, and hydra have challenged the long-standing idea that sleep is unique to creatures with brains. Now, “The real frontier is finding an animal that sleeps that doesn’t have neurons at all.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/if-alive-sleeps-brainless-creatures-shed-light-why-we-slumber #science #biology #zoology #news 🐘
@nev "The earliest life forms were unresponsive until they evolved ways to react to their environment, he suggests, and sleep is a return to the default state. “I think we didn’t evolve sleep, we evolved wakefulness.”"
I love this
Interesting idea this, if we are not careful we will evolve in to wokefulness and end up not being able to say / do anything in case we offend and get cancelled.
