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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

4665.155 - 4688.893 Venki Ramakrishnan

It turns out sleep is highly conserved, even very simple organism sleep, even things like single-celled animals sleep. have a daily fluctuation in the genes they express, which is the equivalent of sleep. And sleep would normally, you would have selected against it because you're vulnerable when you're asleep.

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