Through evolution, cavefish have lost sleep
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 07:02
in Biology & Nature
Cave life is known to favor the evolution of a variety of traits, including blindness and loss of eyes, loss of pigmentation, and changes in metabolism and feeding behaviour. Now researchers reporting online on 7 April in Current Biology have added sleeplessness to that list...
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