Submitted by tomerFire t3_zylli4 in explainlikeimfive
Hyggenbodden t1_j26klz4 wrote
Reply to comment by tomerFire in ELI5: Why do we need to sleep? by tomerFire
It could theoretically be done, but we have evolutionary evolved using sleep as we know it as a recovery strategy. It has shown to be an advantage.
Birds for example also have sleep, but they evolved in a way that only one half of the brain sleeps at any time because that allows them to keep flying while recovering which turned out to be an advantage.
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