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4. "sleep is crucial for all living organisms" ?

Fri Oct 18, 2013, 08:58 PM

Oct 2013

I don't believe that sponges, bacteria, fungi, algae, or green plants need to sleep.

Plants may go dormant, but that's a whole 'nother story.

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Why do we go to sleep? To clean our brains, say US scientists [View all] n2doc Oct 2013 OP

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