Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture
- 2 Sleep in insects
- 3 Schooling by continuously active fishes: Clues to sleep's ultimate function
- 4 What exactly is it that sleeps? The evolution, regulation, and organization of an emergent network property
- 5 Evolutionary medicine of sleep disorders: Toward a science of sleep duration
- 6 Primate sleep in phylogenetic perspective
- 7 A bird's-eye view of the function of sleep
- 8 The evolution of wakefulness: From reptiles to mammals
- 9 The evolution of REM sleep
- 10 Toward an understanding of the function of sleep: New insights from mouse genetics
- 11 Fishing for sleep
- Index
- Plate section
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture
- 2 Sleep in insects
- 3 Schooling by continuously active fishes: Clues to sleep's ultimate function
- 4 What exactly is it that sleeps? The evolution, regulation, and organization of an emergent network property
- 5 Evolutionary medicine of sleep disorders: Toward a science of sleep duration
- 6 Primate sleep in phylogenetic perspective
- 7 A bird's-eye view of the function of sleep
- 8 The evolution of wakefulness: From reptiles to mammals
- 9 The evolution of REM sleep
- 10 Toward an understanding of the function of sleep: New insights from mouse genetics
- 11 Fishing for sleep
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
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- Chapter
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- Evolution of SleepPhylogenetic and Functional Perspectives, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009