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The evolution of sleep is inevitable in a periodic world
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There are two contrasting explanations of sleep: as a proximate, essential physiological function or as a behavioral, adaptive state of inactivity and these hypotheses remain widely debated. To investigate the adaptive significance of sleep, we develop an evolutionary argument formulated as a tractable partial differential equation model. We allow demographic parameters such as birth and mortality rates to vary through time in both safe and vulnerable sleeping environments. From this model we...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0201615
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS ONE More from this journal
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- e0201615
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-19
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1932-6203
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pubs:886057
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- Field and Bonsall
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- 2018
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- © 2018 Field, Bonsall. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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